“Love is our true nature. When we do not express love in our words and actions it is like honey hidden in a rock.”

The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.

What makes Amma happy, is to see her children helping others to feel happy.

Don’t get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.

Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.

You cannot predict when grace takes place; you can only wait. Relax.

If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God’s ever flowing grace.

Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.

Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.

May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.

Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?

Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.

Children, we should simplify our life’s needs and use the resulting savings for charity.

Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.

If you have patience, then you’ll also have love. Patience leads to love.

Remember to set apart at least one hour every day to do some service for others. While the food we eat nurtures our bodies, it is what we give in charity that nurtures our souls. If time is not available daily, reserve at least a few hours every week for some worthwhile act of charity.

Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life.

What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata.

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

I think we have to stop using the expression “alt-right.” It’s ridiculous. It’s racist, fascist, nationalist.

Everything you do counts forever. You are an expression of the whole process of creation; you are a cocreator.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It’s because I understand short attention spans.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.