The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it.

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

[Speaking of marriage and family] In this entire world there is not a more perfect, more complete image of God, Unity and Community. There is no other human reality which corresponds more, humanly speaking, to that divine mystery.

Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.

Our breath plays a very important role in our life. The breath is the connecting link between the inner world of the mind and the outer world of the body and environment.

I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.

Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

If world peace is to be established, peace in the individual must be established first. Transcendental Meditation directly brings peace in the individual life.

Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions. Without reactions the world becomes clear.

If you want to have world peace, go to your house and love your family.

Aug 18, 1873 - The world is revealed from my form. I myself am the only Purusa, the Self; there is nobody else.

It was Lord Jesus Christ who said "Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.

The world is a mirror of one’s own mind.

Give the world the best you have and best will come back to you.

I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God.

The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.