“Then all this earth shines like one house.”

There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.

A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.

The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.

To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.

The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.

The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

True silence is really endless speech.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.

We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.

The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world

See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.

If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.

The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.

I have this old Polo jacket. I’ve got to bring it wherever I go. And I have this one cape that somebody gave to me. It’s this jumpsuit with this cape on the back that this one person gave to me. It’s clutch.

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.

The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.

This heaviness is too much for one soul.

It’s been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.