The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world.

I am the father of the world. The whole world is my child.

If you lead a life of work and you feel that this work is worship and that the material world is the living presence of God, then you will get liberation.

Conduct yourself in this world as if you are here to stay forever, and yet prepare for eternity as if you are to die tomorrow.

The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread and by our understanding love, give peace and joy.

In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its own boundaries.

What is the most auspicious quality of a spiritual seeker? Stillness, calmness. Why? The definition of restlessness is “the world.” Thus, the more one is involved and attached to the world, the more restlessness one is.

Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile!

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

The world is nothing but a moment.

Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego.

When something seems to change in the world, the rishis said, it is really you that is changing.

Yoga is anything which reveals or reflects the wholeness that we truly are, and the world is anything that makes us feel that we are fragmented, dissected, cut into pieces and out of tune with ourselves.

Two kinds of greedy people never get satisfied; the seeker of knowledge and the seeker of this world.

Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.

When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts, so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us.

Know verily that the purpose underlying all these symbolic terms and abstruse allusions, which emanate from the revealers of God's holy cause, hath been to test and prove the peoples of the world; that thereby the earth of the pure and illuminated hearts may be known from the perishable and barren soil.