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

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.

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.

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.

You never know if you have met your best friend in life yet. That still may be to come.

The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.

In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

I like to sit on things and digest them and then I’ll figure out my next move, but I never said I was right for doing anything.

A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.

I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.

Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird.

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.