“Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth.”

A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.

Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.

Let us serve the world soulfully. The pay we will receive for our service will be in the currency of gratitude, God’s gratitude, God the only gratitude.

If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions which is the love of God. Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness are the signs of a true religion.

Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it.

Just one smile Immensely increases the beauty Of the universe.

Gratitude is pure happiness. Happiness is sure perfection.

Wrong thoughts are inside us just because we identify ourselves with these thoughts. If we identify with something else, immediately they have to leave us.

Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind.

There comes a time in the seeker’s life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.

Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. The world is changed. Changed forever.

Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.

If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.

I did not come into the world to prove anything. I came into the world to love everyone and everything.

We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.

This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.

I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I’m fine that way. I don’t need to be faithful to any concept, you know.

Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.

Fascism is a religious concept.

The clothes are not making me If I like it, that’s all that mattersIt’s not about the clothes. It’s about how I am as a person and how confident I am.

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.