Some beings will walk with you for the duration of this bodily existence, up to the very end. Some will come with bright promises, bright lights, but they fade quickly. Others come, they don’t look like they will go very far, but they are marathon runners; they’re there with you all the time. You cannot determine this... Somehow in the flow of your own unique river, you will see that everything is as it should be.

Laughter is such a healthy exercise. Somebody is laughing - that's perfectly good exercise, join him. Somebody is being playful - if you have time, join him.

Devotion to God is an addiction that lasts all the time.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something [the Reality] beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor not-living. It is a state of Pure Awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time.

Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.

The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements.

If we are prisoners, how do we free ourselves? How long must we remain in prison? With steadfast determination we must achieve the true spirit of freedom through proper contemplation, proper thinking, and right action and living. Otherwise, lifetime after lifetime we will remain bound by our karma.

You are always a winner. Sometimes you win, sometimes you make others win.

Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.

If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

A time comes when meditation stirs the unconscious mind and brings forward hidden impressions. It quickens the method of analyzing, understanding, and surveying the unconscious.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Every time we make an immoral choice, we become more addicted to immorality.

I am the mind, right? No, not really. How many times the mind has woken up in the morning, how many times the mind dreamt, how many times the mind slept—and you are the witness of all of them.

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.

Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness is not an arrival, it is the journey itself. Many people seek for happiness above the height of human beings, some below. Yet, happiness is exactly at the exact height of human beings.

At times the truth shines so brilliantly that we perceive it as clear as day. Our nature and habit then draw a veil over our perception, and we return to a darkness almost as dense as before. We are like those who, though beholding frequent flashes of lightning, still find themselves in the thickest darkness of the night.