It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.

When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.

The love of God uplifts and enlarges us. I can never think of myself anymore as exclusively in this body; I feel that I am present in all bodies. I have no awareness of race or other distinctions at all. In my perceptions, just as I feel my own consciousness in every part of my physical form, I feel you all to be a part of me. Everything that is living I feel within this body. I know the sensations of all. It is not imagination; it is Self-realization. This consciousness is far beyond telepathy. It is awareness of the perceptions of every being. That is the meaning of Christ Consciousness.

Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.

Seclusion is the price of greatness.

Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.

Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.