All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form

Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.

Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.

The human will stands beyond all circumstances. Everything must go down before the will, for that comes from God Himself; a pure and a strong will is omnipotent. Before it all the powers, even of nature, must bow down, succumb, and become its servants - the strong gigantic, infinite will in man.

The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.

The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body, he is miserable. In the senses both his misery and his happiness begin and end.