When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.

Easier to change, than to suffer. Grow out of your childishness. That is all.

If you resist change, you resist life.

Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.

The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others.

Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

Nobody likes to let go of the ego- it is so precious to everyone. However, once you have attained a state of egolessness, the world won't disappear, as you may think it will. The world will continue, but a change takes place within you. Something is uncovered. You start seeing everything with the wonder and innocence of a child.

Do you really want to be a yogi? Do you really want inner transformation? A piece of iron associated with magnet is changed into a magnet. It behaves like a magnet. If you really want the beauty of yoga, then be constantly associated with God. There is no separation between you and God. Can a wave ever think that it has a separate existence from the ocean? The wave is born in the ocean, lives in the ocean, and ultimately merges in the ocean. Ocean and waves are one and always have been one. Perceive this Yoga, this unity, this association, identity and oneness with Him. Your everything is God. Every aspect of your life is God. Please follow your Master. Practice the technique of Kriya Yoga daily, regularly and sincerely. This technique is itself divine. It will make your more divine and realized.

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change.

All you need is to stop searching outside for what can be found only within. Set your vision right before you operate. You are suffering from acute misapprehension. Clarify your mind, purify your heart, sanctify your life - this is the quickest way to a change in your world.

True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it.

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud? God sees the changeless beauty of our souls...

You want to change others so that you can be free. But, it never works that way. Accept others and you are free.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.

If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next state. These states are always interchangeable. Eternal happiness and misery are a child's dream.