Service brings merit, merit allows you to go deeper in meditation, meditation brings back your smile.

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.

Funny thing, how much weaker boys are than girls.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.

If we are not full of Him we have nothing to offer to anyone else.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

There's a lot of other artists doing things outside of that depth that I enjoy - that music that I can actually have fun to, and not be in depth and think about, then I appreciate that.

In God, I move and breathe and have my being.

Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.