“Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love.”

For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).

When you judge others, look at yourself – You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn’t judge you. Who are you to judge?

There is nothing for you to take away from this world. You have come to give.

To grow in unconditional love and in beauty is spirituality.

Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt.

The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.

What path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important.

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!

Spiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions – being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you.

When everything is in abundance, dispassion happens. And when dispassion is there, everything comes in abundance.

When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.

When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team

If you ever feel lonely and feel that no one loves you and cares for you – remember me.

Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves… But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves — unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you.

What are the things that you can’t see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love…They’re the guiding lights of a life.

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.