Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft, and tyranny - pray day and night for them. I am no meta physician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor, I love the poor.... Let these people be your God - think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly - the Lord will show you the way.

All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form".

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

Relationships are more important than life,but it is important for those relationships to have life in them

Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.

Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.

A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments.