...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.

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.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

We have to work extra hard, because we in America are very ethnocentric--we think our culture is superior. Why's that? It's because we've got moon rocks, and nobody else has moon rocks.

The voice thing is a blessing that I was given. I've had opportunities to do voice work of all kinds. It was something that was given to me and I was able to make good use of it.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

I've been a member of some good gyms in the past. I love a good spinning class; I love a good aerobics class.

Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.

The best way never to fall is ever to fear.

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.