“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.”

I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.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

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.

My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.

A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.

Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.

I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.