We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but it is only in theory. I was so fortunate as to find one who was able to carry theory into practice. He had the most wonderful faculty of carrying everything into practice which he thought was right.

God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life.

The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.

. . . Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings. . . . We will do great things yet. . . . So long as you have faith and honesty and devotion, everything will prosper.

You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.