A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.

How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

I am a slave of Ramakrishna, who left his work to be done by me and will not give me rest till I have finished it. And oh, how shall I speak of him? Oh, his love for me!

This is the great fact: strength is life.

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.

Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces.

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.