Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
If you want to go east, don’t go west.
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
Transformation does not start with some one else changing you; transformation is an inner self reworking of what you are now to what you will be.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
Once you choose hope, anythings possible.
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgement of others.
Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open.
The simplest things are often the truest.
You won’t skid if you stay in a rut.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
The shortest answer is doing.
You won’t skid if you stay in a rut.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Look forward to spring as a time when you can start to see what nature has to offer once again.
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centred by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.
Your outlook on life is a direct reflection on how much you like yourself.
Once you choose hope, anythings possible.
I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
You can adopt the attitude there is nothing you can do, or you can see the challenge as your call to action.
Being right is highly overrated. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
Do more than dream: work.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
You can do it if you believe you can!
Many people think of prosperity that concerns money only to forget that true prosperity is of the mind.
Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.
Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind.
My reputation grows with every failure.
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough theyre yours.
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.
The wisest men follow their own direction.
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don’t have to.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.
Don’t leave a stone unturned. It’s always something, to know you have done the most you could.
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world.
If you cannot be silent be brilliant and thoughtful.
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
I believe that every person is born with talent.