True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.

Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our scriptures say, relying upon differences, and that all good comes from faith in equality, in the underlying sameness and oneness of things. This is the great Vedantic ideal.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in life. He may not have been perfectly unselfish; yet he was tending towards it. If he had been perfectly unselfish, his would have been as great a success as that of the Buddha or of the Christ. The degree of unselfishness marks the degree of success everywhere.

Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.

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