“If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.”

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

One can realize God through kirtan alone.

The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.

When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.

The goal of life is god realisation.

If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.

Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.

Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp god.

Fear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.

Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.

The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.

Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

A scientist’s life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.

And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.