“I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.”

I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.

The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness.

Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.

Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.

Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

The sun is within me and so is the moon.

Stand firm in that which you are.

The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.

Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.

The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.

Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.

As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.

Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.

If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?

I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.

I awoke one day to find myself famous.

I like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.