“You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.”

Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.

The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.

If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.

Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.

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.

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

The bottom line for Republicans is this: The United States can have an open door without having open borders, but we cannot preserve the country we love by slamming that door in the faces of those who most aspire to join our nation.

Your desire for involvement with the world of means when Allah has withdrawn you from it is a fall from high aspiration.

Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

I think it’s important that we remind everybody that America was never great in itself. It’s been great in its aspirations.