If you are posing as religious and are not living the life as stressed by God, you should wake up. It is wrong to be insincere. The best time to begin a religious life is when you are youthful and well. If you have a short time to live, you must work harder at it. And if you have a long time to live, you should not waste that precious opportunity.

When the mind is strong and the heart is pure, you are free.

As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.

Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.

God is the life behind your life, the sight behind your eyes, the taste behind your tongue...

The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to achieve the balance necessary for harmonious development... Practice the art of living in this world without losing your inner peace of mind. Follow the path of balance to reach the inner wondrous garden of Self-Realization.

Think of Divine Abundance as a mighty, refreshing rain. Whatever receptacle you have at hand will receive it. If you hold up a tin cup, you will receive only that quantity. If you hold up a bowl, that will be filled. What kind of receptacle are you holding up to Divine Abundance?

Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness.

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

Always remember, nothing can touch you if you inwardly love God.

Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.

Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things.

You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk on food? To know food only theoretically is to always remain hungry. You must eat to satisfy hunger. So he who seeks new doctrines continuously but does not put them into practice in his life is in continual spiritual starvation.

Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so-called good people who are intolerant and devoid of compassion. Being spiritual is to have an open mind, understand and forgive, and be friends with everyone.

Nothing may truly be said to be a miracle except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle.

The greatest romance is with the Infinite.

A saint is a sinner who never gave up.

Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization.

You do not have to struggle to reach God...

Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.

Most of the world is like a mental hospital...

Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it.

Intuition is the discriminative faculty that enables you to decide which of two lines of reasoning is right. Perfect intuition makes you a master of all.