“Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.”

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.

Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.

The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego’s likes and dislikes.

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.

The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.

Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.

Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.

Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics.