The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.

A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.

The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk. "Written", perhaps, is not the proper word. It would be more appropriate to say that each letter of the book is marked deep with the heart's blood of the great soul who had renounced all for his love of Christ.

Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.