Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.

Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.

Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Your coming to Christ is not for you to fill up the seats or to take part in rites

You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.

... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

A deity who remains silent and invisible should not get angry or surprised at doubt of his reality.

If you accept failure as learning, it's not discouraging to keep adapting until you find success.

It is a basic tenet throughout the Scriptures that God rewards diligence, faithfulness, endurance, and steadfastness.

If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.