Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.

Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.

Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . .

A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss.

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.

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

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.