“Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.”

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

One feels that way as long as this pot of ‘I’ exists. When the ‘I’ disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.

There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. .

A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.

This side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’it!’

When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer

It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God’s mansion lies the stump of ego.

When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

The fool who repeats again and again: “I am bound, I am bound,” remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: “I am a sinner, I am a sinner,” becomes a sinner indeed.

All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.

It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.

The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.

You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world?

This film [ Blue is the Warmest Color] actually is the result of me talking with my producer Vincent [Maraval].

He’d made sure i had something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want. If it were anything or anyone else, I could stand back and let him take it.” His blue eyes gazed back at me. “But I can’t let him have you.

Those blue eyes that had stopped my heart the first time she looked at me found me in the crowd.” -Cage

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

President Bartlet: There’s a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn’t think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one’s own human failing.