“If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.”

That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real.

When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.

When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.

In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.

Do yourself what you wish others to do.

The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.

Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures.

The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.

Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.

The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.

The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .

That is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.

The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.

One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

Love, like truth, can be shared, but not divided.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.

Unite to win. Divide to conquer.

The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty. Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.