“When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.”

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.

What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.

Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.

There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.

I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.

We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.

The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.

An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet; at the same time, it has to be vigilant so as not to allow any distracting thoughts or desires to enter.

In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.

May nothing distract me from You, neither noise nor diversions. O my Master, I would so love to live with You in silence.

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Big productions, to me, are great – like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows – but I think that sometimes it’s distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.

Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.