Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one 's own heart.)

The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love.

As long as I live, so long do I learn.

The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.

All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.

It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

All troubles come to an end when the ego dies

A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.

Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.

Now here is the good news: while it's true that none of us can know everything, we can all know more tomorrow than we do today

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job-- not a calling.

We sat and drank in silence. It was something I appreciated about Jesse. He didn't feel the need to fill every moment with talk or some sort of silly exchange.

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

By working to get away from your circumstance you can make something better of yourself, but there’s no guarantee... But you know what? The joy of it is chasing that dream.

I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.