You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control, to attain to that consciousness from which you will be able to study the mind and remain unmoved by any of its wild gyrations. Otherwise the facts observed will not be reliable; they will not apply to all people and therefore will not be truly facts or data at all.

It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Service to man is service to god