“All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.”

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.

When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.

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

It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.

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.

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.

If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’

Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.