When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?

Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.

Perfection is one thing and enjoyment another; these two having different ends, engage men differently.

How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn.

The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.

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.