“The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.”

Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.

Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.

By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

The solution to your problem is to see who has it.

By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.

That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.

Silence is also conversation.

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.

Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego.

You’re best when you’re not in charge. The ego locks the muse.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

The Ego is a veil between humans and God.

We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.