When the mind gets a solution [settlement], it is considered religion. It is considered irreligion when the mind does not get a solution.

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 was never ready and could you see it in the way time collapsed in my syntax? Because melancholia is the inability to sequentialize.

Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

And so you prefer her faults to other people’s perfections?

Don't go to the dark side. Don't go bashing immigrants or Muslims.

When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

If God changes your heart, be willing to change your plans

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing - trees and stones and stars with you.