When you are fully present, you are truly living; the rest of the time, you are merely existing

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.

One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.

Slaves in the past were captured by force

No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.

When I believe in something, I support it fully. On that note, I totally don't support Velcro shoes.

God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.

I love to mix colors. For me, I don't have a rule, like "you can't wear silver and gold." You can mix it.

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )