The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord .

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness without objectification. Knowing without thinking; merging finitude in infinity.

All that you are is the result of what you have thought. It is founded on your thoughts. It is made up of your thoughts.

Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson.

We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore acquire contentment.

Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal bliss and supreme joy in the end.

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?