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

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all.

God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.

When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space…it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.

To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.

God alone is real, and all else is illusion.

Those who speculate from the shore about the ocean shall know only its surface, but those who would know the depths of the ocean must be willing to plunge into it.

Through endless time God’s greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But when mankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence God incarnates as Man.

Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas – cause that’s what He’s getting! Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

If you are convinced of God’s existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him. Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart.

The finding of God is the coming to one’s own self.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

Love and understanding never condemn but always seek to help and encourage.

Being is Dying by Loving.

The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world has sprung into existence.

The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

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

There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance ­and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.

Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.

Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.