For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.

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!

This girl is magic. She's wild incantations. She's that spark that lit me back to life and I'm burning for her.

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

One's silence can be deafening indeed, but it's also quite satisfying once in a while to actually hear one's thoughts just to reassure a presence.

Today is Veterans Day. Thank you to all our men and women who have served the United States armed forces. In honor of Veterans Day we are marching out a few jokes that have already served.

Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting.

To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.

Life's so full that you just take it one day at a time.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.