The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body, he is miserable. In the senses both his misery and his happiness begin and end.

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit.

There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.