Those who run after happiness will never be happy. Happiness is something that has to come to the fore from within.
Like kindness, a smile from the heart not only purifies the human mind but also illumines the human heart.
My Lord does not want to know what I have done for Him. He just wants to know how I am. If he hears from me that I am happy, then he himself becomes exceedingly happy. In umistakable terms He tells me that my happiness is His real and only Satisfaction.
Paradise is not a place; it's a state of consciousness.
What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence?
We are all God's children. But world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers are undoubtedly God's choicest children.
Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large.
Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.
Peace is eternal. It is never too late to have peace. Time is always ripe for that. We can make our life truly fruitful if we are not cut off from our Source, which is the peace of Eternity.
When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad.
Your heart will be shattered by sorrow If you force it to live In tomorrow's ephemeral imagination-world Instead of in today's eternal Reality-Now.
Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence.
Say I have set my goal at 300 pounds, and I cannot do it. The very fact that I have been devotedly practising and practising gives me joy, and the tenacity or perseverance that I am showing is itself progress. Anything that we do devotedly and soulfully helps us make progress.
We do not need heaven-born saints but just earth-born seekers who believe in peace and want to live in peace.
Man-made religions find fault with one another, whereas God-made religion is eternally a oneness-song - God-manifestation through human aspiration on earth.
The reason I have entered into bodybuilding and weightlifting is to inspire everybody to pray and meditate so they can bring to the fore their own inner strength. If everybody brings to the fore his own inner strength, the world will eventually be inundated with peace.
Our goal is to go from bright to brighter to brightest, from high to higher to highest. And even in the highest, there is no end to our progress, for God Himself is inside each of us and God at every moment is transcending His own Reality.
Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.
Look at your heart-flower and smile. You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.
If peace is not In Nature's beauty, Then where is it, where?
May peace-dreamers And peace-lovers Occupy the length and breadth Of the world.
How can I have peace? Not by talking about peace, But by walking Along the road of peace.
To hope is to see with the eye of the heart.
It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.
A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.
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