Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity.

Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.

That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self.

Just as, when we touch a live wire, the electric force infuses itself into our body, when we deeply meditate on God the power of the whole universe seeks entry into our personality.

We always imagine that the Supreme Being is very far away -many, many millions of light years away- yet It is very near, in our throat itself.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that the soul is inside you, because if the soul is inside you, you will be outside it.

Every objet in the world promises satisfaction, but it never gives satisfaction -it only promises.

We are in conflict with the world; otherwise, there would be no necessity to put forth tremendous effort to meet the world and its demands.

"Our prosperity, our friends, our bondage and even our destruction are all in the end rooted in our tongue," says a famous adage.

The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady.

The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion.

But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side.

I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides

He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.

Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens.

The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.

I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.

Always remain close to the Catholic Church, because it alone can give you true peace, since it alone possesses Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, the true Prince of Peace.

An injury may prove a blessing.

I'm usually nervous to meet people that I admire because what if they're not cool or something?

This is how we loosen up for the morning announcements. Whoever has the football when the bell rings loses.