Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

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

I was always seeking truth from childhood. And I identified truth with many things, with science, with politics, with art, and I kept coming back to the thought that without God I can't get to what I'm looking for.

The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.

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.

The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.

The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.