“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.”

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.

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.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one ‘s own heart.)

A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.

If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.

Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.

Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.

As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Leap, and the net will appear.

I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.