Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
God is not a diversion.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
Devotion is a social force.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.