Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.

The things you need in life are those that will help you to fulfill your dominant purpose. Things you may want but not need may lead you aside from that purpose. It is only by making everything serve your main objective that success is attained.

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

God-realization is the most difficult state to reach. Let no one fool himself, nor think that someone else can "give" it to him. Whenever I fell into a state of mental stagnation, my Master could do nothing for me. But I never gave up trying to keep in tune with him by cheerfully performing whatever he asked me to do. "I have come to him for God-realization," I reasoned, "and I must listen to his advice."

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.