The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.

Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.

The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat of cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything.

Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.

Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he is the highest man whose hand goes out in giving. The hand was made to give always. Give the last bit of bread you have even if you are starving. You will be free in a moment if you starve yourself to death by giving to another. Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.