“The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.”

So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.

It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas

Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.

God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.

Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.

God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,

God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.

Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.

Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.

All troubles come to an end when the ego dies

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

Great men have the nature of a child.

So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.

The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.

Writers don’t need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.