For external beauty, you put on things; for real beauty, you have to drop all things. For external beauty you have to have make-up; for real beauty you only have to realize that you are already made up.

Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.

Problems are here in this world so that we can realize our purpose in this world.

When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.

The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited.

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.

Diwali means to be in the present, so drop the regrets of the past and the worries of the future and live in the moment. It is a time to forget the bickering and negativities that have happened through the year. It is a time when you throw light on the wisdom you have gained and welcome a new beginning.