Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment.

The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.

The world knows a caterpillar becomes a butterfly but they don’t care that it also becomes a moth. One is diurnal, another nocturnal. Human once awakened can change the view to change self from Angulimala to a Buddha.

Work for this world as if you will live forever and work for the hereafter as if you will die tomorrow.

The hardest thing in the world is to train one's own mind.

Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain.

Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be.

A moment's truth can and shall make the world beautiful. A moment's peace can and shall save the world. A moment's love can and shall make the world perfect.

Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

I am drunk on the nectar of Krishna’s name; no worldly intoxication can compare.

We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!

Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. Such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man.

The tragedy of the world is that generally people do not recognize how important and loved someone is until they die. Because we are so preoccupied and so distracted by so many so-called important things.

Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

Do not do what you like – do what the world needs. Doing what you like is not freedom. Likes and dislikes are compulsive.

All the conflicts in this world are simply born of people whose propensity to love is frustrated to different degrees.

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

If we do not work for individual transformation, if we do not look for ways of making the individual peaceful, talking about world peace is just one more entertainment in the world.

Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer.

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

As long as the mind is outward, only ida and pingala remain active. But when the mind is calm and tranquil, sushumna, the central channel, is awakened. The joy derived from the mind traveling through the sushumna channel is unique; it cannot be compared with any sensory pleasure. Because of that inner joy, the mind loses its taste for worldly pleasures.

We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity — a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.