“Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you’re looking for something you’ve never lost.”

All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.

There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play.

Love is nothing if it is not spontaneous. It cannot be a conclusion of reasoning.

When a person tells others “Be good,” he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.

The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life

Don’t Worry Be Happy

Love is the reflection of God’s unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.

The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.

There is no difference in the realization of the Truth either by a Muslim, Hindu, Zoroastrian, or a Christian. The difference is only in words and terms. Truth is not the monopoly of a particular race or religion.

I have come not to teach but to awaken.

I never realized how much you hurt.

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.

His power has never abated. His Word has never changed.

I often went entire days without speaking – unable to get a word in over my inner taskmaster, who never shut up:

I don’t. I almost never get in shape for a movie, even though I know it would be a good career move.