“The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.”

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.

Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.

Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”

All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.

You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.

Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Handle yourself like a professional on the field and you have one goal-and that’s to win.

One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.

LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.