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.

My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided along the age-old path of life-blossoming self-awareness.

The mind says there is nothing beyond the physical world; the HEART says there is, and I've been there many times.

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.

Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.

If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

Now I see that if one doesn’t know how to die, one can hardly know how to live—because death is a part of life.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.

The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.

For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things; all the rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection; and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.

A child is born on that day, and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual Karma. His horoscope is a challenging portrait, revealing his unalterable past and its probable future result. But the natal chart can be rightly interpreted only by men of intuitive wisdom - These are few.

While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through.