XII. What I want to achieve is self-realization, to see God face to face, to attain Moksha.
XIII. Truth is the sovereign principle. This truth is not only truthfulness in word, but truthfulness in thought also, and not only the relative truth of our conception, but the Absolute Truth, the Eternal Principle, that is God.
16. A reformer cannot afford to have close intimacy with him whom he seeks to reform. True friendship is an identity of souls rarely to be found in this world. Only between like natures can friendship be altogether worthy and enduring. Friends react on one another. Hence in friendship there is very little scope for reform.
75. Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You, Ruskin's Unto this Last.
123. The very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.
129. It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
145. Such service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
151. We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
161. It is idle to adjudicate upon the right and wrong of incidents that have already happened. It is useful to understand them and, if possible, to learn a lesson from them for the future. It is difficult to say for certain how a particular man would act in a particular set of circumstances. We can also see that judging a man from his outward act is no more than a doubtful inference, inasmuch as it is not based on sufficient data.
176. Let no one think that it is impossible because it is difficult.
209. I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty., All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient.
218. All good action is bound to bear fruit in the end.
230. Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed disapprobation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked, always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. 'Hate the sin and not the sinner.'
249. To allow a man to believe a thing which one has not fully verified is to compromise truth.
250. The teachings of Ruskin's Unto this Last:
1. That the good of the individual is contained in the good of all.
2. That a lawyer's work has the same value as the barber's, inasmuch as all have the same right of earning their livelihood from their work.
3. That a life of labor, the life of the tiller of the soil and the handicraftsman, is the life worth living.
254. I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be often upset by God, but at the same time where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, no matter how a man's plans are frustrated, the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.
332. This was not the first time I had been faced with such a trial. On all such occasions God has sent help at the last moment.
364. Civility does not here mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.
381. You can wake a man only if he is really asleep; no effort that you may make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.
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