If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

If a man prays to thee with a yearning heart, he can reach thee, though thy grace, by any path.

An ocean of bliss may rain down from heavens, but if you hold only a thimble, that's all you receive.

The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

It is not lust alone that one should be afraid in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.

If you spent one tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.

Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.

Man needs a Guru. But a man must have faith in Guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his Guru as God himself.

Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. There is water inside the jar, water outside but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.