The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake. Some drink it at one place and call it 'jal', others at another place and call it 'pani', and still others at a third place and call it 'water'. The Hindus call it 'jal', the Christians 'water', and the Moslems 'pani'. But it is one and the same thing.

One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.