“Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.”

We live in a calculative world and have a calculative mind, and in such a world, ego dominates.

Children should observe a regular schedule for sleeping and waking up.

While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.

Make a firm decision: ‘Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.’

Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.

Those that have an attitude of service towards others are the beauty of society.

Our hearts are the shrine; that is where God should be installed. Our good thoughts are the flowers to worship Him. Good deeds form the worship, good words form the hymns and love forms the offering.

The guru is not someone who is confined to the body. When there is selfless love for the guru, we will be able to see him not only in his body but in every living and nonliving thing in this world. Learn to see everything as the guru’s body and to serve them accordingly.

Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.

Happiness depends on how you accept, understand and surrender to situations.

Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair.

Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.

Children, everyone should try to wake up before five in the morning. The ideal time for spiritual practices like meditation and chanting is Brahma Muhurta. During this period, sattvic qualities are predominant in nature. Moreover, the mind will be clear and body energetic.

Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won’t feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden.

What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.

Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.

A believer to another believer is like two hands, one washes the other (correcting each other).

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

In this world there is a paradise, whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise of the Hereafter.

My heart can take on any form: A meadow for gazelles, A cloister for monks, For the idols, sacred ground, Ka’ba for the circling pilgrim, The tables of the Torah, The scrolls of the Quran. My creed is Love; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.

Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.

Make tawba not just for sins you’ve committed, but also for obligations you haven’t fulfilled.

The unbeliever knows his Koran best.