The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain.

Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you.

Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings, even to animals. This kindness, this mercy, this charity - greater than any doctrine - are what Buddhism left to us.

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.