Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.
All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
The will is not free – it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect – but there is something behind the will which is free.
You can not believe in God until you believe in yourself.
All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love’s sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.
The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.
Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.
However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.
Don't look back – forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring,and infinite patience – then alone can great deeds be accomplished
Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!
Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect.