“Man suffers through lack of faith in God.”

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.

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.

The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.

When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.

The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.

We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.

I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.

Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.