Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.

If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.