“Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.”

He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.

Life is real only then, when “I am”.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.

Only super-efforts count.

Believe nothing, not even yourself.

You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.

To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.

Love without knowledge is demonic.

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

We should be in harmony with our own consciousness; our mind, body, and soul should be one in interest and in purpose. And in that unified condition, we can actually express that natural innate love that we have found in our own life in everything we do in the world.

When you advance in Krishna Consciousness it is more difficult to tolerate being honored than to tolerate being dishonored.

The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering.

The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified.

Spirituality is revival of our God consciousness, not creating something new.

Our humble service attitude in our life is what determines what effect chanting will have on our consciousness. Otherwise we can be chanting for millions and millions of births before we actually achieve the goal.

The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much ‘works’ but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender