How much is your sincerity, that much will be ‘Our’ divine grace (krupa). This is the measure of grace.

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!

I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought.

An intelligent man only argues with his wife when she has lost her voice.

I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.

My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.