To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.

It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.

He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong.

Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.