Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa).

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!

There is a difference between how you live your life, and what you do with your life.

One is often unconsciously surrounded by one’s own personal reality

And yes, being lovesick is like being in mourning. Because you die, because your future dies and you with it...There is a hurting time. It lasts for so long. But it gets better. I know that now.

the soul mate doesn’t have tobe a romantic relationship.Sometimes in life, you meetpeople when you need them, and there is an immediateconnection.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

Music is in the space between the notes.

I think it's fair to say we're both in the business of self-obliteration through music.

If you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.