True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

I having pierced through the shell of ignorance for the sake of creatures wrapped in ignorance, egg-born (as it were), am unique in the world, utterly enlightened with unsurpassed enlightenment. I myself am the world's eldest and highest.