“He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.”

All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.

Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.

I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.

If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.

Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.

There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.

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.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset.

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,’ or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America’s security foremost in mind?

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.

In the olden days, the umpire didn’t have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.

There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet.

I am well-nigh resolv’d to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

The most merciful thing in the world, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.