Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.

The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature.

It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.

Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.

Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Martial arts is what pulled me through tough times, and it is one of the reasons for my happiness.

The best feeling in the world for me is when my parents say they are proud of me; I just want to give them all the happiness that they deserve.

Since childhood, I have been a fan of Spider Man because, according to me, he has the maximum humanity; he is very human, very mortal. So he even gets hurt. He has a poor background, but when he wears the costume, he forgets all of that, all the pressures of the society on him.

My mom is my biggest support and critic. I've tried to be a good son, and I don't think I've given her a single day of grief. I want her to know she has my unconditional love.

The day I think I've achieved everything will be the day I fail. There is no end to learning, and I want to continue being a student.

I have had a lot of crushes but have never had the courage to go up to a girl and say what I feel. I am scared of rejection.

My becoming an actor wasn't planned. My interest always lied in sports such as football, martial arts, gymnastics and dance.

We are entertainers. We have to give our audience a good time. If my name serves that purpose, if that brings a smile on your face, then I think it is good and my job has been done.

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

Now is the age of anxiety.

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.