“Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours, who is helping you to arrive at your ultimate destination.”

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.

I begin by imagining the impossible and end by accomplishing the impossible.

If you depend on God’s grace there is no such thing as impossible.

Real meditation is not done by us. It is done by our Inner Pilot, the Supreme, who is constantly meditating in and through us. We are just the vessel, and we are allowing Him to fill us with His whole 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.

The search is more important than the destination.

The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.

Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about – about what the issues really are – and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

The journey has to feel the way you want the destination to feel.

All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do.