“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.”

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one ‘s own heart.)

A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.

If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.

Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.

Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.

As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.

A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges.

He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.

Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

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

I started reading about people of great accomplishment… and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan’s writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?

He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest Texas, and they really don’t talk about the arts there much on career day.

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.