It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world.

In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.

They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

If there's a God, we must see him and if there's a soul we must perceive it. Otherwise, it's better not to believe.

Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of development in infinite ways....One glance of his gracious eyes can create a hundred thousand Vivekanandas at this instant. If he chooses now, instead, to work through me, making me his instrument, I can only bow to his will.

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.