Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.

Shiva is chidambaram, like the inner sky. Shiva is the inner sky of consciousness

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

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind.

Love is giving everything and taking nothing

If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja

When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Every moment you spend on this planet, remember that you are here for a unique purpose & cause, far greater than to just eat, sleep & talk.

For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).

Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.

Technology with out humanity is calamity.

so quiet now my dearest knightyour armor shines white stillfor my lips shall not say the wordsthat make you flee with fear"White Knight

You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

It is always the season for the old to learn.

Don't worry about what you do not understand... Worry about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not live by.

No stream rises higher than its source

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

I've never had that fear of going against the grain.

[after accepting a gift from a Kenyan woman] You are a woman, aren't you?

At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands.