“The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?”

Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.

The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.

If you want to go east, don’t go west.

Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.

The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]

First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.

So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.

The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.

But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.

Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.

Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.

An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive

He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.

There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’

Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.

We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom

The believer speaks little and does a lot, whereas the hypocrite speaks a lot and does little.

For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.

To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.

There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, ‘Mine.’

The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel.