Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.
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.
As a mortal being you are limited, but as a child of God you are unlimited... Focus your attention on God, and you shall have all the power you want, to use in any direction.
Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you.
You naturally love those who are dear to you, and you must learn to give that kind of love to the whole world.
If God calls me tomorrow I will go without a moment’s turning back.
Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you – to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.
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.