Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.

We must not lose our trust in the power of truth. Everything is always changing in the world.

In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.

You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.

You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.

When we look at the world through the eyes of the Master, the world will look so much more beautiful - not a nasty place, but a place filled with love, joy, compassion and all virtues

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away.

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.

Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment.

It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.

Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world!

The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.

This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.

It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.

The world cannot chain me; my heart belongs to the one who holds the flute.

Don't you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.

Peace is something that we become. Once we become peace, then only can we give peace to the world and receive peace from the world.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.