“If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.”

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.

God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’

No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.

Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession.

Without this investment, our nation may disintegrate into a country sharply divided between those who have enough to eat and those who do not.

I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.

Without this investment, our nation may disintegrate into a country sharply divided between those who have enough to eat and those who do not.

But we’ve got all the language wrong and made this divide between secularism and spirituality, whereas instead it’s about being human.

Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.