Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

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

Proclaim the glory of the Atman with the roar of a lion, and impart fearlessness unto all beings by saying, 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'!

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.

To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.

The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the ideal. The energy of the Greek painter is spent in perhaps painting a piece of flesh, and he is so successful that a dog is deluded into taking it to be a real bit of meat and so goes to bite it. Now, what glory is there in merely imitating nature? Why not place an actual bit of flesh before the dog?