Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.

A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.

Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility. In stupid conclusion, there is no possibility.

Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

Seeing everything just the way it is gives you the power and capability to walk through life effortlessly.

As swords were designed to killThey did well to make them tongue-shaped.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.

I'm constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: 'This is how much interest I owe.'

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

All perfection is melancholy.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

You are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others. Pray for this hurting world.

Well, in Colombia everybody's very voluptuous, and you're supposed to be. You don't want to be skinny when all of your cousins are mermaids. You grow up thinking that's how beauty is.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.