If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.

Sociologically, I think it is the most important thing going on in the world today. Because you can't change people by force. Communism made a great mistake in trying to inflict its beliefs on everybody. People have to find their own understanding, and if you can offer them an example that will inspire, they will come naturally to it. Ananda tries to offer this inspiring example.

To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

If you want to know me, listen to my music.

But surrender also means your back's to the wall and saying, "Okay, I give up." But rather it's a joyful self-offering. When you come to the point of realizing that "I never get it right. I always make a mess of things; I can't do anything right. Let him do it." And then you ask his power to do it through you and you find suddenly that it works that way.

Laughter is a medicine you've got to use to drive away blues.