One cannot completely get rid of the six passions: lust, anger, greed, and the like. Therefore one should direct them to God. If you must have desire and greed, then you should desire love of God and be greedy to attain Him.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one 's own heart.)

Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.

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

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

Respect is heaven, respect is liberation.

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.