Do not take life’s experiences too seriously. For in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role.
Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should be expanded into love and sympathy for all Orientals, and for all the world.
From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.
A wish is a desire without energy.
Calmness is the living breath of God’s immortality in you.
As I radiate love and goodwill to others, I will open the channel for God’s love to come to me.
God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to the human heart?
Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.
It is better to meditate a little bit with depth than to mediate long with the mind running here and there. If you do not make an effort to control the mind it will go on doing as it pleases, no matter how long you sit to meditate.
A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.
When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things.
As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form.
As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.
To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way that leads to permanent peace and happiness.
Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.
Yoga is, as I can readily believe, the perfect and appropriate method of fusing body and mind together so that they form a unity which is scarcely to be questioned. This unity creates a psychological disposition which makes possible intuitions that transcend consciousness.
Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom.
Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.
If you don’t invite God to be your summer Guest, He won’t come in the winter of your life.