If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.

This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness.

Motion is always a relative thing. I move in relation to something else. Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one, and in relation to what can it move? There is nothing besides it. So this infinite Unit is unchangeable, immovable, absolute, and this is the Real Man.