Happiness is a smile of comfort to the sorrowful.

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

If you begin to identify yourself with that inner awareness, and then you realize you're not really doing anything. As long as there's the thought, "I'm trying to wake up," that thought of "I" is still there.

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.

Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.