The mind uncontrolled and unguided will drag us down, down, for ever -rend us, kill us; & the mind controlled and guided will save us, free us.
Our inability to rise above the sense-life — the striving for physical pleasures, is the cause of all the horrors and miseries in the world.
All the misery of the world is caused by this slavery to the senses.
It is better, far better, to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!
Die you must, but have a great ideal to die for, and it is better to die with a great ideal in life.
Calm and silent and steady work and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember this.
Tapasya is threefold-of the body, of speech & of mind. The first is service of others; the second truthfulness; &third, control &concentration
We cannot unmake ourselves; we cannot destroy or impair the vital force within us, but we have the freedom to give it different directions.
Strength is the medicine for the world's disease.