Few mortals know that the kingdom of God includes the kingdom of mundane fulfillments. … The divine realm extends to the earthly; but the latter, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death - everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds.

BH Gita 3.27 “All good and evil works are done by the qualities of nature, but the egotistical person thinks, ‘I am the doer.’”

Wherever you may be, whatever you may be, if you are willing to strive, you can evolve yourself beyond the limitations of nature.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Only he who has a co-ordinated understanding of both the visible and the invisible, of matter and spirit, of activity and that which is behind activity, conquers Nature and thus overcomes death.

A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it is sure to become like a clear mirror, reflecting the essential nature of phenomena and the true aspect of reality. Arouse deep faith, and diligently polish your mirror day and night. How should you polish it? Only by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo

Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel its limitations, and suffer. Realize your true self in order to open the store of happiness. That true self is the reality, the Supreme Truth, which is the self of all the world you now see, the self of all the selves, the One real, the Supreme, the Eternal self - as distinct from the ego or the bodily idea for the self.

The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self

When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.

Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.

Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.

First, the human mind should be harmonized, then the harmony of Nature will spontaneously take place.

If you knew the true nature of your existence, you could play the drama of life whichever way you want, to whatever extent you want.

The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears.

As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil; So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends.

Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

The nature of life is such that if you allow it to flow, life is a beautiful experience. If you hold back, it becomes misery.