“Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.”

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Your thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another thing, and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.

The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

Bear insult, bear injury.

Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

I want to explain the new alchemy [in the “From Earth, Air, Fire, and Water to a New Vision of Mind and Time”], which has to do with understanding what I call the subjective and objective qualities of existence.

I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen,

An echo is a good way to describe the photogram, which is a visual echo of the real object

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

The number and richness of man’s signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary.

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.