“Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment. Contentment means no want.”

We are always looking for solutions from someone else. We forget that if we turn our mind inward, we can get some ideas, some solutions.

Today is a gift from God – that is why it is called the present.

Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion.

Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.

Don’t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!

Why can’t we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.

When you are unhappy, you are just coming in touch with your own boundaries. Turn the whole situation into a prayer & you will walk through it.

Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.

Love is giving everything and taking nothing.

The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds.

When a bud breaks it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes divine.

Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.

Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!

What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.

When attention is given to the spiritual aspect of one’s life, it brings a sense of belongingness, and responsibility, compassion and caring for the whole of humanity.

Acting runs through my blood. There is some sort of creative desire to express myself and I would need that outlet. Otherwise I would be a nightmare to live with.

I have indeed – praise be to God – attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.

There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.

For once I want to be something that lasts.

Free is a man who has no desires.

What we are and what we possess is but a loan- and that not for long! Do not clutch what has been given to you, for joy and desire to possess are but nails fastening you to the perishable world.

My desire for connection is stronger than my desire for perfection.

True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.