“When people live in accordance with Nature, the song of life becomes sweet.”

Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace.

Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death.

Try to make others happy, and don’t despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp.

Amidst sorrows, the only thing that enlivens us is optimistic faith. Never lose that faith.

When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.

Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.

God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.

Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?

If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.

In God’s vision, no inside or outside exists. Still, in the beginning, Mother is asking all to meditate on Him in the heart, in order to achieve concentration.

Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.

Do no talk while eating.

Problems arise when you identify with your thoughts and emotions. Try to be a witness to the thoughts instead of being totally identified with them.

In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.

The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.

I think Joe [Madison] is right. What we have to do is call him out on every one of these things and then maybe somebody will take the sweet machine away from him.

Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.

The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.

It is so good, so sweet and above all, so beneficial to suffer.

In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn’t convince other people to really do it. And this year, I’m not running it.

The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.