So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.

If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds.

I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

I’m here now, I’m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try to make God like the human psyche and it's wrong. I mean it's a projection of the mind, and you can use it to get a start and then you must leave it behind.

In every adult there lurks a child—an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Deep within yourself, listen to your conscience which calls you to be pure...a home is not warmed by the fire of pleasure which burns quickly like a pile of withered grass. Passing encounters are only a caricature of love; they injure hearts and mock God's plan.

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.

Sathya, Dharma, Shanghai and prema are the hall-marks of a purified heart, a heart where God is enshrined and is manifest.

At first you think that your sadhana is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that everything you do is part of your sadhana.

Faith is a function of the heart.

Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another

The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.

Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.

The source of all abundance is not outside of you. It's a part of who you are.

It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.