Become 'tested' in such a way that not a single word in this world can shake you up.

The worldly life means a market place of sensual pleasures. Worldly life means false (temporary) happiness all the time. And moksha (liberation) means permanent happiness all the time.

Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).

There is no happiness in what worldly people believe happiness in, there is happiness in what Gnani [the enlightened one] believes the happiness in. What people regard as happiness is not happiness.

Things do not give unhappiness, ignorance (of one’s real Self) does.

One who experiences prasantta [blissful happiness] within, he will have prasantta [blissful happiness] externally. The mind is a mirror (reflection) for the external.

The law of nature is such that everyone gets happiness according to their needs. The ‘tender’ that everyone (of us) fills out, is indeed fulfilled.

The ‘egoism’ that is used to hurt others will hurt one’s own self. The ‘egoism’ that is used to give happiness to others becomes cause for his own happiness.

A person who thinks he is right, causes great hurt to others and that is why hurt will come to him. A person who believes ‘I am right’, causes a lot of pain to others.

Without the 'applied awareness' of the Soul, 'happiness' cannot arise.

Your success in worldly life (sansar) is in proportion to your faith and truthfulness!

The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything...from me

The first few moments of the day are some of the most important as they can determine the mood for the rest of the day.

Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.

I have learned from my own experience that if you work hard you will succeed.

Take pictures of what you fear.

Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.

I'm a creature who bores, easily. I could never do one job, for the rest of my life.