No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.

God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.

Whatever you see, hear or experience in the world is ephemeral. Get in touch with the eternal substratum of everything.

Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and drinking. The money we waste on these things can be used for so many useful things. With the money we smoke away, we can buy an artificial leg for one who has lost a leg, pay for an eye operation for someone with a cataract, or buy a wheelchair for a polio victim. Or, if nothing else, we can buy some spiritual books for the local library.

The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.

Try to gather the strength to live as brother and sister after one or two children are born. This is essential for reaping the full benefit of spiritual practice and to make spiritual progress through mental restraint.

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.