This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love.

Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.