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‘It is when your practice is rather greedy that you become discouraged with it. So you should be grateful that you have a sign or warning signal to show you the weak point in your practice.’

‘Building characrer is like making bread — you have to mix it little by little, step by step, and moderate temperature is needed.’

‘When there is no gaining idea in what you do, then you do something.’

‘You should rather be grateful for the weeds, because eventually they will enrich your practice. If you have some experience of how the weeds in your mind change into mental nourishment, your practice will make remarkable progress.’

‘The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching.’

‘This is the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner. Be very very careful about this point.’

‘M: Be alert. Question, observe, investigate, learn all you can about confusion, how it operates, what it does to you and others. By being clear about confusion you become clear of confusion.’

‘Questioner: Between the spirit and the body, is it love that provides the bridge?

Maharaj: What else? Mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.’

‘The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive.’

‘The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds in our store consciousness’

‘The destructive capacity of nonstop busyness rivals nuclear weapons and is as addictive as opium. It empties the life of the spirit. False heroes find it easier to make war then deal with the emptiness in their own souls.’

‘Our entire society can be changed by one person’s peaceful presence.’

‘Each breath we take, each step we make, each smile we realize, is a positive contribution to peace, a necessary step in the direction of peace for the world. In the light of interbeing, peace and happines in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world.’

‘The secret of meditation is to be concious of each second of your existence and to keep the sun of awareness continually shining — in both the physical and psychological realms, in all circumstances, on each thing that arises.’

‘However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.’

‘If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.’

‘Direct your eye right inward, and you’ll find a thousand regions in your mind yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be expert in home-cosmography.’

‘Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry, — determinded to make a day of it.’

‘It is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.’

‘As the sun arose, I saw it throwing off its nightly clothing of mist, and here and there, by degrees, its soft ripples or its smooth reflecting surface was revealed, while the mists, like ghosts, were stealthily withdrawing in every direction into the woods.’

‘If a man has faith he wil co-operate with equal faith everywhere; if he has not faith, he will continue to live like the rest of the world, whatever company he is joined to. To co-oporate, in the highest as well as the lowest sense, means to get our living together.’

‘There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on vegetable food alone; and to strike at the root of the matter at once, — for the root is faith, — I am accustomed to answer such, that I can live on board nails.’

‘We no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. The best works of art are the expressions of a man’s struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.’

‘But men have become the tools of their tools. The man who independently plucked the fruits when he was hungry has become a farmer; and he who stood under a tree for shelter, a housekeeper.’