Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.
The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile.
There is nothing for you to take away from this world. You have come to give.
When you are infinitely indebted for your body, for Knowledge, for things you have received, and for your own life, then you bask in the abundance of the Creator.
If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd then you are in knowledge.
When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team.
Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages.
Effort is the key in the relative; effortlessness is the key to the Absolute.
For those who do not have faith in God, fear is a way to protect them. But if faith is strong, there is no anxiety about something in danger.
To whatever degree we are alert, aware, to that degree we are living.
The overwhelming problem in the world today, everyone knows, is terrorism, where people in the name of religion kill each other, kill others just to go to heaven, and thinking only they will go to heaven.
The more you give, the more you will get. Then life will become a sheer dance of love.
Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!
Being unconditionally happy is a practice: “Come what may, today I’m going to smile. Anyway, everything is going to die! Everything is going to vanish and disappear-so what! Who cares! Let me at least be happy, smile this moment, enjoy my very breath.”
Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm – I tell you, the opposite happens.
Your world is very small. Your world is bundle of your experiences. Have you observed this?
When we look at the world through the eyes of the Master, the world will look so much more beautiful – not a nasty place, but a place filled with love, joy, compassion and all virtues.
The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter.
The entire universe is just an expression, projection, of the Being, of the Self. Within this small body, you are able to experience the infinite space.
The first thing we do when we’re born is we breathe in, and we cry. And the last thing we do when we die is we breathe out, and other people cry.