Heart is the place of emotion, ego, and attachment. You have to rise above all the propensities of the heart. Clean it thoroughly, surrendering it to God through regular prayer and meditation, and through sincere and steadfast effort.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you.

In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.

The best way to cleanse the heart and prepare for the stilling of the mind is to lead a normal, worldly life. Living in the midst of your day-to-day duties, responsibilities, likes, dislikes, etc., will help you. All these become the very means for the purification of your heart.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.

The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

The earth is not just our environment. The earth is our mother.

A spiritual person's heart is full of divine love.

Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions - what it does to the heart, the circulation, the immune system, the digestive function, the liver.

Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.

One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart.

In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its own boundaries.

This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe.

Purify the heart through deep meditation.

Scrutinizingly observe the waves in the heart.

The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle

All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute; all truth in the universe will manifest in your heart, if you are sufficiently pure.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.