Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies.

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.

Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.

My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person.

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

Do not disturb the faith of any. . . Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others.