To know ‘as it is’ is Real Knowledge (Gnan).

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!

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

There is no Better place like Home till we find the right One

If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.

A lot of young people think they are not going to die - and that's a great thing about being a young person, is living in this carefree oblivion.

There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite.

I'm not stupid. I would like to have some businesses that grow so I won't have to be out there on the road when I'm 44.

I grow beyond my family's limitations and live for myself. It is my turn now.

Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.