Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces.

This world is not for cowards.

Religion in India culminates in freedom.

Every step I take in light is mine forever.

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

Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.