“God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.”

That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.

Silence is also conversation.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.

Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.

Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.

Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul’s being.

The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

Illuminate the opposition.