The world is going on because not all can be free of desires. People with desires are born again and again.

The only ache people have nowadays is ache in the stomach due to over eating and lack of exercise!

If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.

People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy.

People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.

Rise above the dualities, the opposites. See this whole world as the bubbles on the surface of water. See people as bubbles on the surface of the Brahman, of the Infinity...Water bubbles up, rises up. Like that, everybody is rising and having their own games and plays and dissolving back into the Infinite.

The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness.

Music is a great blessing. It has the power to elevate and liberate us. It sets people free to dream. It can unite us to sing with one voice. Such is the value of music.

Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.

Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease.

We need a new apologetic, geared to the needs of today, which keeps in mind that our task is not to win arguments but to win souls... Such an apologetic will need to breathe a spirit of humanity, that humility and compassion which understand the anxieties and questions of people.

Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.

Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those animals. They are killed because you eat them. This is a sin. What a sin to kill innocent animals and eat them.

Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.

Negative people deplete your energy. Surround yourself with love and nourishment and do not allow the creation of negativity in your environment.

The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.