Quotes on Spirituality

Most people tell you they want to get out of kindergarten, but don't believe them. Don't believe them! All they want you to do is to mend their broken toys. "Give me back my wife. Give me back my job. Give me back my money. Give me back my reputation, my success." This is what they want; they want their toys replaced. That's all. Even the best psychologist will tell you that, that people don't really want to be cured. What they want is relief; a cure is painful.

There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.

In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else.

We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.

First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.

In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.

Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.

"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.

Past and future are in the mind only - I am now.

If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.

What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that; then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things.

Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.