To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

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

Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature.

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

We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end.

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

All power is His and within His command.

What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment.

Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing.

It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment "The earth is enjoyed by heroes" - this is the unfailing truth.

God is the one goal of all our passions and emotions. If you want to be angry, be angry with Him. Chide your Beloved, chide your Friend. Whom else can you safely chide? Mortal man will not patiently put up with your anger; there will be a reaction. If you are angry with me I am sure quickly to react, because I cannot patiently put up with your anger. Say unto the Beloved, "Why do You not come to me; why do You leave me thus alone?" Where is there any enjoyment but in Him? What enjoyment can there be in little clods of earth?

Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal.

In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.

You are the creator of your own destiny

The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.

Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship.

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.

May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.

As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.