The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.

Modern civilization is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.

Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart.

Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.

You are more valuable than both heaven and earth. What else can I say? You don’t know your own worth.

Adhere to the Truth rather than to the personality, and take to heart the Truth rather than the authority of another.

Being criticized is normal, very much part of life, if we shy away from acting, fearing for being criticized, Even for that also one will be criticized, therefore choosing for what we want to be criticized is making the best use, choosing is our right and criticizing is their habit.

People don’t realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart.

The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.

Happiness is the art of relaxation.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

O ye rich ones on earth! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye My trust, and be not intent only on your own ease.

Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun.

Everything comes from the same source. You can be at absolute ease only if you experience yourself as a part of existence, not as a separate individual.

How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

When someone criticizes or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of men. It is the bread of the spirit, it clotheth the words with meaning, it is the fountain of the light of wisdom and understanding...

As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.

When you are searching and seeking, you should be doing it honestly with your full strength—not halfheartedly.