- The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.[Source]
- All healthy social changes are the manifestations of the spiritual forces working within, and if these are strong and well adjusted, society will arrange itself accordingly.[Source]
- Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify yourself, and the world is bound to be purified. This one thing requires to be taught now more than ever before. We are becoming more and more busy about our neighbours, and less and less about ourselves. The world will change if we change; if we are pure, the world will become pure.[Source]
- We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.[Source]
- You have to grow from inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.[Source]
- If the spiritual life is intensified, the outer life will adjust itself automatically; this principle applies equally to the life of an organisation. — Swami Brahmananda
- Be the change you wish to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi