Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

You are within God. God is within you.

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with a purpose.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well being that places harmony in ones life.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life ? bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Do not believe in me or any other teacher, rather trust in your own inner voice. This is your guide, this is your teacher. Your teacher is within not without. Know yourself, not me!

When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God; it is a sincere seeking for a good thing; and it is a concentration on the thing sought, with faith that it is obtainable.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will createan inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

When you do something for world peace, peace among groups, peace among individuals, or your own inner peace, you improve the total peace picture.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.