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.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
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.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!
YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.
BY the study of different religions we find that in essence they are one.
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.
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.
MY nature is to love Him. And therefore I love. I do not pray for any-thing. I do not ask for anything. Let Him place me wherever He likes. I must love Him for love’s sake. I can not trade in love.
To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
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.
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.
GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
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.
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world, that.
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.
