“The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.”

He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.

One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.

So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner

They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.

Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.

All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food.

Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.

One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

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.

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

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

Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.

Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.

He dirtied my name with his dark and muddy lies. The earth he left grew flowers for the butterflies & now I thrive.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

Greatness pulls mediocrity into the mud. Get out there and get after it.