One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.

All power is within you. Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... Stand up and express the Divinity within you.

Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion.

It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.

No two persons have the same mind or the same body.

It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.

The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.