The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

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.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

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.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.

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.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun-when they are concentrated they illumine.

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the most intense activity, and in the midst of the most intense activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

Arise, awake, and stop not until the goal is achieved.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.