Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.

. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another; they exist in a sea of blood. A European said that the reason why in India animals were not killed was because it was supposed that they contained the spirits of ancestors. This reason was worthy of a savage nation who are not many steps from the brute.

The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.

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

It is the want that creates the body.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.