Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute.

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.

A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.

Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.