Wisdom Library

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Learn to live in the present moment, for the past is a closed door and the future has not yet come.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. All things pass away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather, see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger,…

Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Whatever you may do, wherever you may go, always know that you are in the presence of the Divine. Nothing is ever separate from That.

Love is the divine spring that flowers into wisdom. Every experience of love — however small — is a step toward the knowledge of God.

If the only prayer you say in your entire life is ‘thank you,’ that will be enough.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

The breath is the link between the body and the mind. Teach the breath first.

An ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory. Do not wait. Begin now.

The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards. As above, so it is below, as in heaven so on earth; and man — the microcosm and miniature copy of…

The river that flows in you also flows in me. The wave that rises in me rises also in you. God is not found in temples made of stone —…

Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words.

When distracted by negative thoughts, cultivate their opposites. This is pratipaksha bhavanam — the practice of planting the counter-seed in the mind.

God is within you; you are in God, as the wave is in the ocean and the ocean is in the wave.

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The name of God is the boat for crossing the ocean of birth and death. Chant it constantly — this is the only lasting wealth.

When you realise there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you. Depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you…

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms that lead us to know Him. In whatsoever name or form you desire to call Him, in that very form…

You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey too.

Truth is high, but higher still is truthful living.

The cosmos is an illusion — but it is an illusion that veils and reveals the Real simultaneously. The mystic sees both the veil and what is behind it.