“Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.”

One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.

The best course for My lover is to remember Me wholeheartedly as much as one can…and leave the rest to Me.

Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.

To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.

Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.

These false answers such as, I am stone, I am bird, I am animal, I am man, I am woman, I am great, I am small are, in turn, received, tested and discarded until the Question arrives at the right and Final Answer, I AM GOD.

According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.

Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other.

Just think you are the greatest. Where’s the harm in thinking like that? It is not for pride you do it, but for bringing the best out of you. There is nothing wrong.

Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

Love God and find him within – the only treasure worth finding.

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

Nothing is the shadow of Everything.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that’s what I’m always looking for, a director that’s going to help me go places I’ve never been before.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.

Helping begins with listening.

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.

When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.