“Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.”

Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study – ourselves.

Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony.

Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.

If you are unable to meditate, chant your mantra or sing bhajans.

One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart.

A person’s destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.

Pure love transcends the body. It is between hearts. It has nothing to do with bodies.

Love is the only medicine that can heal the wounds of the world.

Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.

If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.

There are thousands ready to die for their religion, but only are few willing to live by its principles. Because of their narrow vision and envy, they have missed the true essence and message of religion which is love and compassion.

Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.

When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one’s thoughts and actions.

You can only feel love by expressing it.

We should try our best to relieve the suffering of others in whatever way we can.

The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it.

My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

Things happened there that I don’t think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain’s and the body’s systems is inestimable. It’s like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn’t grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It’s not just a cost to the people who live there. It’s a cost to all people everywhere.