Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.

To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.

We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks to dig a little well for water. A fool indeed is the man who, living near a mine of diamonds, spends his life in searching for beads of glass." God is that mine of diamonds. We are fools indeed to give up God for legends of ghosts or flying hobgoblins. It is a disease, a morbid desire.

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

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