“God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,”

God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’

No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.

The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?

There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.

As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.

Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.

One should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.

The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

Man suffers through lack of faith in God.

He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.

If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.

You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.

Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.

God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart.

Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.

The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.

God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.

In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.