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

Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.

In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.

It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.

So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

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

We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.

Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry.

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

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.