It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.

This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.

All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.

The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical health.

So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way.

Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you.

Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.