Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you.

What makes you weep, my friend? In you is all power. Summon up your all-powerful nature, O mighty one, and this whole universe will lie at your feet. It is the Self alone that predominates, and not matter.

There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.

Not only we can, but some have reached perfection; so no matter what finer bodies come, they could only be on the relative plane and could do no more than we, for to attain freedom is all that can be done.

Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.

There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality, of unselfishness, which means getting rid of the idea that human beings are the same as this little body.

All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.