Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will see it.

Perfection is always infinite.

Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.