The thoughts that arise because of 'depression' or 'elevation' are all wrong thoughts. The thoughts that arise in 'normality' are 'correct'.

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!

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

You can't say to someone with a brain like Morse, This is the way you do it, regardless of the circumstances; this is the way it is done.

What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.

We're not going to end the Medicaid. We're going to give the governors more control and leeway to bring innovative reforms to make Medicaid work.

Cindy Sheehan is one tough mother. And nothing you say or anyone else is gonna slow her down.

The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.

When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say.