How can the power of speech remain when you lie for your own ‘safeside’?

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 only thing keeping you from living the life you want, is allowing your weaknesses to hold you back. So don't let anything hold you back from achieving your goals".

Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must

History is not another name for the past as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.

I try to do things where I'm going to feel challenged in some way. I only really do one movie a year.

God is love. He didn't need us. But he wanted us.

So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.

You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.

This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them.