As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; o… - Swami Vivekananda

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these — and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.

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.

A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil.