Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.

The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be present as the awareness behind the thoughts and emotions.

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

The rush to enjoy robs the joy from life and only denies the happiness and freedom of here and now.

In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine.

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.

By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

Enquire: 'Who am I?' and you will find the answer. Look at a tree: from one seed arises a huge tree; from it comes numerous seeds, each one of which in its turn grows into a tree. No two fruits are alike. Yet it is one life that throbs in every particle of the tree. So, it is the same Atman everywhere.

Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life.

The purpose of life is to be happy.

Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.

We need a guide and teacher in spiritual life just as much as in material life.

Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world.

On the platform of reality, on the platform of oneness of life, all differences dissolve.

Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.

Devote yourself sincerely to spiritual practice. You must enter into the inner life.