Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.
You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
Smile, breathe, and go slowly.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
You give before you get.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Compassion and happiness are not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.
Learning is finding out what you already know.
As the rest of the world is walking out the door, your best friends are the ones walking in.
It’s important to know that words don’t move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.
We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
Don’t frown because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.
We can only learn to love by loving.
It is difficult to achieve a spirit of genuine cooperation as long as people remain indifferent to the feelings and happiness of others.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
Bold is not the act of foolishness but the attribute and inner strength to act when others will not so as to move forward not backward.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn.
For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.
We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.
No is easier to do. Yes is easier to say.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
The greatest antidote to insecurity and the sense of fear is compassion it brings one back to the basis of one’s inner strength