Whatever you do, make it an offering to me—the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

There are three things which are rare indeed and are due to the grace of God—namely, a human birth, the longing for Liberation, and the protecting care of a perfected sage.

When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.

If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land.

You have a wonderful vehicle. And you don’t have to buy gasoline. Mindful breathing and mindful walking are wonderful ways to go back to oneself.

If you don’t have peace within yourself, you can never find peace outside.

When the mind comes out of the self, the world appears.

Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things—mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity. Enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you’ll come to realize what you were dragging around with you. And for that, no one else other than you was responsible.

The celestial Tao does not push, yet it overcomes everything.

All things are one.

Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

We must cultivate the power of concentration and remove all these obstacles to enlightenment which are causing our sufferings.

You think that you can only establish true practice after you attain enlightenment, but it is not so. True practice is established in delusion, in frustration.

So a person can gain freedom—complete freedom—by knowing the Ultimate Truth. It is the truth about the Supreme Reality, God.

He who gives away shall have real gain.

He is not elated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

The way of heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.

The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to own’s own happiness, the happiness of others.

Stay Quiet, be Still, Here you are. / Stay as presence in your Heart. / Do not fear meeting the Self, / It is what you have always been.

Where can the Self go when all that is, is within?

Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don’t do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.

“Me, me again, me always!” This thought lies at the deep root of our misery.

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart.

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

Concentrate on the Eternal Life, the source of all lives…. Express the glory of that immortality in all interactions with the world.

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.