When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable.

Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is ugly. If you are devout, it is beautiful.

Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.

Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.

If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.

The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.

If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave.