“When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.”

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another.

Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.

Every tomorrow is determined by every today.

The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit.

I don’t want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.

As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form.

Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.

The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.

Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply sincere. For God doesn’t mind your imperfections: He minds your indifference.

Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.

The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.

You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God’s creative principle works in you.

In the state of love, no matter what you do, it’s going to be good.

Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weakness acquired in past years; burn them in the fires of your present divine resolutions and right activities. By this constructive attitude you will attain freedom.

It is not strange to me that persons of the fair sex should like, in all things about them, the handsomeness for which they find themselves most liked.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.

And I swear to you, she was so beautiful I had to keep reminding myself to blink.

The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all at once, but must be content to wait for the discovery of its beauty, and symmetry, little by little, as it graduallly comes to be more and more unfolded, or displayed.

Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.