The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world has sprung into existence.

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

With grace and gratitude, great life evolves.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

I feel like I am alone when I am in the presence of those I love. It is so freeing and comfortable, you become one with them.