To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.

Is God to blame for what I myself have done?

What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own body. It is all for this body that I put my hand voluntarily upon my fellow human beings, just to keep it nice and give it a little pleasure. It is all for the body that I injure others and make mistakes.

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.

The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent.