“Love is verily the heart of all religions.”

All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.

We are in our Self. We are not in the world.

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.

The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.

Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.

The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.

To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.

The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.

There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.

Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.

Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

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.

There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.

Who cares if one more light goes out?

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.