Wisdom Library

The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these beings. Nor in the…

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your…

The Buddha taught emptiness in order to abandon all views. Those who cling to the view of emptiness are called incurable.

The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full-grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to train the young. Do not delay spiritual practice.

Truth is one, paths are many. All sincere seekers are walking toward the same summit.

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

O Lord, whatever You have given me in this world, give it to Your enemies; and whatever You have given me in the next world, give it to Your friends.…

Anyone can breathe; therefore anyone can practise yoga. The breath is the teacher.

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

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

There is no religion higher than Truth.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

Truth is high, but higher still is truthful living.

Being Buddha is nothing but manifesting one's self. Manifesting one's self is nothing but being Buddha.

Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.

As a lamp sheltered from the wind does not flicker, so also the mind of the knower of Brahman does not waver. In the stillness of a well-prepared mind, truth…

Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realise. These six words are the whole of spiritual life.

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hardworking farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will…

He who regards all with an equal eye, who recognises the divine light in every heart — that one is the true knower of God.

The greatest of all adventures is the discovery of truth.

I have found my Girdhar, and no other. From birth to birth, I am his alone.

My religion is to live — and die — without regret.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.

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.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey too.

The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.