The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.

The results of action depends upon the very quality of the action.

Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.

The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.

The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.