Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

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.

God is true. The universe is a dream. Blessed am I that I know this moment that I have been and shall be free all eternity; ... that I know that I am worshiping only myself; that no nature, no delusion, had any hold on me. Vanish nature from me, vanish these gods; vanish worship; ... vanish superstitions, for I know myself. I am the Infinite. All these - Mrs. So-and-so, Mr. So-and-so, responsibility, happiness, misery - have vanished. I am the Infinite. How can there be death for me, or birth? Whom shall I fear? I am the One. Shall I be afraid of myself? Who is to be afraid of whom?

My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.

Science and religion will meet and shake hands.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.