“One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.”

Suffering is the way for Realization of God.

Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.

Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.

The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.

Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.

There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.

He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.

Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”

Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.

There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.

Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

You are already That which you seek.

The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.

As you are, so is the world.

There is only going to be one Kate Moss. Kate is an icon.

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

I watch how the moon sits in the sky in the dark night, shining with the light from the sun, and the sun doesn’t give light to the moon assuming, the moon’s gonna owe it one.

Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.

Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.