Thoughts are living things - they travel far.

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves. If we are miserable, we say, "Oh, the world is a devil's world." We curse others and say, "What infatuated fools!" But why should we be in such a world, if we really are so good? If this is a devil's world, we must be devils also; why else should we be here? "Oh, the people of the world are so selfish!" True enough; but why should we be found in that company, if we be better? Just think of that.

Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.

All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates.