Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.

Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.

Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar

Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.

The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.

Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.

When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.

There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.

The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.

Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.

What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

There is nothing that can happen TO you that can’t also happen FOR you…if you’ll let it.

A fallen man is he who has lost the glory of God

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.

Who better to confess to than a dying woman?

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it.

My father was a dentist, and I always thought that he was one of the 10. It's an interesting way to personalize and humanize, which is one of the most important aspects of communication.

The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.

It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small, and the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all.

When I left home, my mum said "Don't forget to write", I thought, "That's unlikely"... It's a basic skill isn't it.