“God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.”

Let what comes come, let what goes go.

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.

What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?

If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.

When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.

A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.

If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.

Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.

By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

I don’t jump to conclusions I gracefully fall to them.