When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first.

Life is endless, not punctuated by nights, days, months and years - for all are one, in the eternal stream.

There was no one to understand Me until I created the whole world.

There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love

Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.

Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.

The Self is you. It is everything. It is God. That is who you really are.

As close as you are to God, so close is God to you.

The ego is a very bad quality. Ego sees everything as separate.

Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals is tantamount to blatant savagery.

Without Self-confidence there cannot be God. So, first there must be Self-confidence and love of God.

All are one family, serve all.

Being a good example is the best form of service.

The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts.

There is no one who can change My course or affect My conduct to the slightest extent. I am the Master over all.

Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper - the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.

Certain countries are dumping nuclear waste directly into the ocean, making fish flesh even more poisonous.

All is divine, all is God, and unity is divinity.

Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?

Swami cannot give peace of mind; you must work for it yourselves. First, stop the questioning and ask, 'who am I?'. This is my body, my mind, my intelligence. But who is this 'My'? Who is it that claims the ownership of that which is declared to be 'mine'? 'My' indicates ownership. That 'My' is the life. As long as the life is in the body, there is this connection between the 'my' and the intellect - 'my' body, 'my' house, 'my' land. But the moment you remove the life from the body, there is no 'my' or sense of possession. Life is God.

As worldly thoughts diminish, thoughts of God increase. Normally, the mind is all the time desiring these worldly things. As the desires are cut out one by one, the peace becomes stronger.

God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.

YOU find someone parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example.