When we take one step toward the Self, It takes nine steps towards us.

Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.

You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

Don't probe darkness to understand light. Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love.

Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

I believe Government should encourage competition, NOT prop up the weak when the going gets tough.

There are always unfavourable consequences to consuming unnatural foods.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of thinking.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.

I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I'm outside, writing, I'm also inside, experiencing, and it can be very unsettling.