My Optimism Rests On My

My Religion Teaches Me That A Promise Once Made Or A Vow Once Taken For A Worthy Object May Not Be Broken.

Our Existence As Embodied Beings Is Purely Momentary; What Are A Hundred Years In Eternity? But If We Shatter The Chains Of Egotism, And Melt Into The Ocean Of Humanity, We Share Its Dignity. To Feel That We Are Something Is To Set Up A Barrier Between God And Ourselves; To Cease Feeling That We Are Something, Is To Become One With God.

The Socialistic Conception Of The West Was Born In An Environment Reeking With Violence.

The Path Of Self-purification Is Hard And Steep. One Has To Become Absolutely Passion-free In Thought, Speech And Action To Rise Above The Opposing Currents Of Love And Hatred, Attachment And Repulsion. I Know That I Have Not In Me As Yet That Triple Purity In Spite Of Constant Ceaseless Striving For It. That Is Why The World's Praise Fails To Move Me, Indeed It Very Often Stings Me. To Conquer The Subtle Passions Seems To Me To Be Harder Far Than The Physical Conquest Of The World By The Force Of Arms.

Religion Should Be Dearer Than Life Itself.