“Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.”

God has not forgotten To give us peace. He is just waiting for us To ask for it.

Allow failure to teach you A supreme lesson: Each sunset is the beginning Of a very, very bright And powerful sunrise.

It is only through inner peace that we can have true outer freedom.

True inner joy is self-created It does not rely on any outer circumstances A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.

If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say.

Be happy! God sees in you another God. God sees you as another God. God sees you and He as One.

The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten.

The problem with fault-finding is that he who finds fault with others is in no way a happy person, Even after he has successfully Accomplished his task.

Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise.

True success is the only thing that you cannot have unless and until you have offered it to others.

Determination can change your mind. Determination can change your heart. Determination can change your life altogether.

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal Consciousness.

To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return.

Not the power to conquer others but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.

It is an objective which when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution.

I have so many goals and aspirations that sometimes I lose myself.

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.

I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration.

Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.