I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

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.

All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean.

In all animals, egoism is in a seed-form. It bears effect as a tree in the human life form! If the egoism is destroyed, ‘one’ becomes the ‘Absolute Supreme Self’[parmatma]!

It is human nature for self-doubt to occasionally creep in and take up residence. It happens to even the most successful people among us.

...it isn’t things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles

Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.