“It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe”

Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.

The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.

After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.

Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.

Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.

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!

The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.

It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas

Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.

God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.

When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.

I think in some ways it’s better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.

I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

I don’t ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.

Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.

If Donald Trump builds the wall the way he builds Trump Towers, he’ll be using illegal immigrant labor to do it.