How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!

Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put into language is indeed That which IS.

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect everyone who wants to come to it, whether this be a man, a woman, a child, or an animal.

For one who knows me, I am one with him; for one who wants to know me, I am very near to him; and for one who does not know me, I am a beggar before him.

It may be asked, why there cannot be one and the same path for all? Because He reveals Himself in infinite ways and forms - verily, The One is all of them.

In 'whichever direction' you may turn your gaze you will find One Eternal Indivisible Being manifested. Yet, it is not at all easy to detect this Presence, because He interpenetrates everything.

Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.

There is One unchanging indivisible Reality which, though unmanifest, reveals Itself in infinite multiplicity and diversity.

Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between 'myself' and 'yourself' will be filled in, which is the goal of all religious worship.

In Him is Everything. Him you must try to find.

On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.

If heaven really exists: then, technically, living is an activity that believers keep themselves busy with — while they wait for their death.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.

If you are offered the opportunity to do something that you don’t know how to do – say yes, dive in and do it anyway.

In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.

The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.

I don't think anyone expected me to get the BAFTA. The bookies didn't have me down. It's definitely made a huge difference in my career, but I don't dwell on it.

It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.