Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-makin g, assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library.

After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains-one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it.

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.

No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.

The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.