“When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.”

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.

After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.

Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.

Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.

The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!

The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

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.

We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.

Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.

Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa’s souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind?

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

If people around you aren’t going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they’re dragging you down, get rid of them.

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

We don’t know what’s around the corner – and we must do everything to ensure we get our country’s debts down, building our resilience so we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past.

The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.