Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

Don’t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!

The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.

Worldly beautiful things are poisonous. If you see them outwardly, they attract you; but if you see them inwardly, then, they are renounced. This is maya, or restlessness.

In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness.

You must enshrine in your hearts the spiritual urge towards light and love, Wisdom and Bliss!

Those that have an attitude of service towards others are the beauty of society.

Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.

Our planet is blessed with vast natural treasures. If we use them wisely, beginning with the elimination of militarism and war, every human being will be able to live a healthy, prosperous existence.

Warm-heartedness and concern for others’ well-being are a condition for happiness, whether you are religious or not.

One can see all the deities if one withdraws the restless mind and makes inward himself in the Kutastha.

Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance.

There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also to some extent present there.

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life. If we dive deep enough into ourselves, we will find that the one thread of universal love ties all beings together. As this awareness dawns within us, peace alone will reign.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising higher towards the spirit, of attaining spiritual perfection, only if it is rightly understood.

Meditation is the inner journey, the spiritual journey, the journey towards the Absolute or the journey of divine love.

As we develop a deeper self-awareness, we learn to acknowledge suffering without identifying with it. Eventually, we even transcend it.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

The law of life is to leave behind the ground one is standing on and then step forward.