When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.

When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall.

Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work

From Him are all name and form; all the animals and men are from Him. He is the one Supreme. He who knows Him becomes free.

The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.

What makes you weep, my friend? In you is all power. Summon up your all-powerful nature, O mighty one, and this whole universe will lie at your feet. It is the Self alone that predominates, and not matter.