The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.

If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self.

Only love for the Supreme Lord is true Bhakti. Love for any other being, however great, is not Bhakti. The "Supreme Lord" here means Ishvara, the concept of which transcends what you in the West mean by the personal God. "He from whom this universe proceeds, in whom it rests, and to whom it returns, He is Ishvara, the Eternal, the Pure, the All-Merciful, the Almighty, the Ever-Free, the All-Knowing, the Teacher of all teachers, the Lord who of His own nature is inexpressible Love."