“To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!”

According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.

Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other.

Just think you are the greatest. Where’s the harm in thinking like that? It is not for pride you do it, but for bringing the best out of you. There is nothing wrong.

Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

Love God and find him within – the only treasure worth finding.

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

Nothing is the shadow of Everything.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.

There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.

The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.

Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you are lost in it, your ego diminishes. And when the ego diminishes, love infinite appears.

Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain’t natural.

You are asking yourself, as all of us must: ‘Who am I?’ . . . ‘Where am I?’ . . . ‘Whence do I go?’ The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity.

The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling

You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.

We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.

Asking journalists to denounce leaks because of their deleterious effects on the functioning of government is as hopeless as asking an airline to denounce jet fuel because of its impact on the environment.

Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

There aren’t many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that’s a 24 hour job right there.