Individuals should take personal responsibility for knowledge acquisition and campaigns against ignorance.

Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or cars only when they start being able to take ‘their’ house to work, funerals, weddings, etc.

I am thankful that I can be thankful, for if thankfulness did not exist my heart would be irretrievably imprisoned by the crazed twins of acquisition and possession, and my soul would exist as a forever slave to greed.

I’ means the Self and ‘my’ means what belongs to the self. All that is ‘my’ is acquisition [parigrah]. You should keep [only] whatever acquisition you are able to carry.

A good listener is one who always pays attention, not to gain, but to learn.

A country whose citizens do not read is already late because "reading" is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of the learnt knowledge is the gateway to personal transformation. If you don't read, you have not yet begun anything!

So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.

Regardless of all what you have done or the treasures you have acquired on earth, what counts before God is what you have invested in the Kingdom of God

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything.