Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes.

Meditate upon the Om that is in the heart.

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning.

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.