Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong

For those who do not have faith in God, fear is a way to protect them. But if faith is strong, there is no anxiety about something in danger.

To whatever degree we are alert, aware, to that degree we are living

Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.

Have respect for yourself and no one can take away your self respect.

Rise above the dualities, the opposites. See this whole world as the bubbles on the surface of water. See people as bubbles on the surface of the Brahman, of the Infinity...Water bubbles up, rises up. Like that, everybody is rising and having their own games and plays and dissolving back into the Infinite.

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.