Getting angry means setting fire to your own wealth.

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!

Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places.

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.

Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.

It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.

All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.