“If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.”

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 not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.

Wherever you go, go with inspiration and aspiration. Whatever you do, do with love and concern. Whomever you see, see with purity’s beauty And responsibility’s glory.

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

True humility means giving joy to others.

No price is too great to pay for inner peace.

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.

I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal.

By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.

To inspire others Is to be immediately rich In the inner world.

Do not Blame the world. Find a solution.

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.

Let us not worry about the future. Let us only do the right thing Today, At this moment, Here and now. Let the future take care of itself.

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

Keep an open heart To allow the world Lovingly and faithfully To come in.

Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.

I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs — there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.

I think of the cold as a noble force.

Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.