Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people.

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.

The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

You should do your work, be friendly to everyone, and never quarrel with anyone. People who are jealous of you will oppose you in various ways but do not take it to heart. Do your work like a great hero and all will be well for you.

Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.

God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you.

The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.

My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.

No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence.

Let the heart, the Inner Man in the heart guide you, rather than emotion and intellect.

The real work is to tune to meditation in Voidness (on the fifth element, ether) leaving three nerves: ida, pingala, susumna and four elements: khiti. apa, teja, and marut, respectively, earth, water, fire, and air.

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained.

There is a veil between the Supermind above and the lower Prakriti below - the veil of ingrained formations. This veil may completely withdraw or be partially withdrawn. Thus even if there is some little opening, with the contact of Light from above the lower nature will get slowly changed.

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.