“All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal.”

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.

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

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)

Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.

If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.

Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life.

External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

So grand yet so small, so important yet so irrelevant, so beautiful yet so shallow, must thee live in illusion or does real life leave too much of a confusion?

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.

Life balance is a myth. It’s an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it’s about proportion – it’s really a work hard/play hard equation.