“Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.”

By living in harmony with Nature one gains a healthy mind and body.

Grace is openness. By remaining open, you let go of your ego and narrow-minded views, and allow divine grace to express itself through you.

True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.

Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life. If we dive deep enough into ourselves, we will find that the one thread of universal love ties all beings together. As this awareness dawns within us, peace alone will reign.

We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.

Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.

Spirituality, as expounded by the great saints and sages of the past, is a very broad path. It accommodates all types of belief systems. You need to satisfy everyone.

No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.

A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, ‘I am everyone’s servant.’ Then the whole universe will bow down to us.

Our attitude should be: Whatever happens I will remain strong, courageous and happy.

Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.

There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don’t die of starvation, only human beings.

When we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.

Look upon others as being part of yourself.

God is standing at the door of every heart. Call Him. He is waiting to come in.

Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.

Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.

There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.

It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.

Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.