God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending.

To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.

Maybe it's just L.A., but [high school girls] look like men, like they would have kids and s - t.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.