The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.

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

There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.

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.

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.

The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.

Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.