Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.

Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams!

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

We have lost faith in ourselves. Therefore to preach the Advaita aspect of the Vedanta is necessary to rouse up the hearts of men, to show them the glory of their souls. It is therefore that I preach this Advaita, and I do so not as a sectarian, but upon universal and widely acceptable grounds.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

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.

You know your real nature [to be divine]. You are the king and play you are a beggar. . . . It is all fun. Know it and play. That is all there is to it. Then practice it. The whole universe is a vast play.