That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind gets no clue to it. But the person who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great.

I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!

Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.

The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.

There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.

If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it!

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation-renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter.