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

External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation.

There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality, of unselfishness, which means getting rid of the idea that human beings are the same as this little body.

I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel for them!

The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.