Respond; don't react. Listen; don't talk. Think; don't assume.

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

Meditation is the process of transformation and beautification of soul from a leaf-eating caterpillar to a nectar-sipping butterfly. It grows with the wings of love and compassion.

Penetrate deep into the word Om. Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul.

Yoga is not just repetation of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.

When you touch the celestial in your heart, you will realize that the beauty of your soul is so pure, so vast and so devastating that you have no option but to merge with it. You have no option but to feel the rhythm of the universe in the rhythm of your heart.

Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.

Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.

Meditate, Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you.

At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.

The singing Sun the signing moon the singing stars and the singing galaxies are the direct expression of the divine word AUM.

Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.

The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. This is the golden rule of prayer. Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the centre of your heart filled with love.

You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity

Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.

We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower....beautiful in essence.

The Way to do is to be.

Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.

Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations.

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.

Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling

Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.

Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

The menu is not the meal.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.

I have gained this by philosophy I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai d'couvert en moi un invincible