Purpose of words is to create silence. Purpose of action is to bring deep rest. Purpose of deep rest is to bring you fulfillment. In fulfillment you find joy, bliss

Shiva is chidambaram, like the inner sky. Shiva is the inner sky of consciousness

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind.

Love is giving everything and taking nothing

If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja

When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Every moment you spend on this planet, remember that you are here for a unique purpose & cause, far greater than to just eat, sleep & talk.

For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).

Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.

Find the joy in your everyday situations. You have the choice, you always did and you will always do. Thrive.

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.

The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong.

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.

We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.