“The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!”

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.

As long as I live, so long do I learn.

Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,

If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

Praise is God’s sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life’s activities.

I was watching Monster’s Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It’s just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done.

You can be a gem yet would be considered a rock, it all depends on the mindset.

Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.