“Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.”

Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.

I have come not to disturb or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in his own faith – so that the Christian becomes a better Christian, the Muslim, a better Muslim, and the Hindu, a better Hindu.

God has no beginning and no end.

Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world.

Do good, be good and see good. Do everything with love.

God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit.

Breaking the cycle takes time. Be Patient and Gentle with yourself. Set long term goals. And be persistent! Remember to Stretch, Laugh and be Unshakable!

You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. But the spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.

All things are beautiful seen through the eyes of love.

When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first.

Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases, Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.

Once we surrender our mind to God completely, He will take care of us in every way.

The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts.

When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.

No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.

Don’t be shy my love come close not with body but with raw emotion.

The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

I would be a giraffe because I just want to experience what a sore throat and being a giraffe feels like. It would be really uncomfortable walking around in the Sahara and being like, ‘I really need, like, 15 lozenges for my giraffe body.’

Crawl inside this body, find me where I am most ruined— love me there.