Love turns man into an ocean of happiness, an image of peace, a temple of wisdom. Love is every man's very Self, his true beauty, and the glory of his human existence.

Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you.

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

The supreme bliss that pulsates in the wake of meditation is your pure essence.

If a religion does not teach love, respect, and regard for others, it cannot be the religion of humanity.

Your mind makes you dance like a monkey all the time... Now you have to become stronger; you have to make the mind dance. Make it dance on the stage of mantra. For that, mediate and repeat mantra.

Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple.

It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.

One who loves his own Self loves the whole world.

Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.

You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness. Unborn, unchanging, all-pervasive You are a mountain of joy.

I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

learn from the past live in the present plan for the future

Expressing our feelings out loud, especially to someone else, can bring a sense of relief. There is power in proclamation.

We have gotten so use to humor being something nasty and offensive that we started to believe that was the only way to get a laugh.

We don't get to see ourselves the way the Lord sees us, but we can choose to believe what He says about us.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

I don't even know if you're allowed to say this. But just like you can't be a little bit pregnant, you also can't be a little bit spread.

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there.

In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.