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

The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.

There is no difference in the realization of the Truth either by a Muslim, Hindu, Zoroastrian, or a Christian. The difference is only in words and terms. Truth is not the monopoly of a particular race or religion.

I have come not to teach but to awaken.

Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you’re looking for something you’ve never lost.

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)

Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.

If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.

Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life.

External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.

The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. From the spiritual point of view, such a life is the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants and is characterised by sufficiency or contentment.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.

I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.

Most of Set’s forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says demons are bright).

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

They want to be the ones telling people: “This is what we have done in history” but when people begin to say, “No this is what we have done in history” it’s a different thing.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.