Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are of deities or Buddhas, and they try to send a message of the value of the spiritual.

The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.

Your real Self is the silence of the universe … That real Self is the ultimate reality. There is no such physical, subtle, or even causal universe apart from you.

When you are right, everything around you is right, for the beautiful flow that is inside your heart has the capacity to spread its fragrance of oneness-light all around you.

He alone is a man who keeps his word: Not that he has one thing in the heart, and another on the tongue.

It may be that we try to remember God when we are comfortably placed. But the test as to whether He has really entered our hearts is whether we remember Him in sickness, suffering, opposition and times of temptation.

Descartes said, ‘I think, therefore I exist.’ Vedanta would go one step further. Even when I don’t think, I’m still aware of not thinking … Instead of saying, ‘I think, therefore I exist’, it would say, ‘I exist, therefore I think.’

A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.

The Word is the master key for the whole world, inasmuch as through its potency the doors of the hearts of men, which in reality are the doors of heaven, are unlocked.

Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.

Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.

It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love.

Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret.

Take heart son, your sins are forgiven. — Matthew 9:2

Love the Lord your God will all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. — Matthew 22:37

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. — Proverbs 3:5