The very first step or attainment in spirituality is discernment.
Never offer advice unless invited.
Thinking about love is not meditation; the feeling of love is meditation.
The time of youth should be a period of energetic activity with aspiration linked to it.
Everything we need is already present within our heart as a source of light.
When the mind is wavering and wandering aimlessly, we lose focus of our goal.
If you find any fault with anybody, pray for their freedom from it.
Every day is a golden opportunity to design our own destiny.
With an open heart, everybody becomes your friend.
Through meditation we move from complexity of mind to the simplicity of heart.
Criticism helps us to grow through a process of continuous improvement of our weaknesses.
The mind is only at ease when the heart is at peace.
Learn to be happy whatever the outer circumstances may be.
If there were no soul and body, there would have been no mind at all. Its existence comes into manifestation only upon their combination.
Meditation is all about making your consciousness a perfect mirror to see yourself.
An important attitude, which has helped me to deepen my meditation practice and bring it alive, is automatism. There are two aspects to automatism. The first is to learn to recall the meditative state at any given moment, and the second is to have fixed timings, so as to establish a biological clock in one's practice.
We start with meditation, and when we become absorbed in it we reach the preliminary state of concentration. For such a concentration, we need not struggle with ourselves. It is the natural outcome of meditation when our being merges into one thought or feeling.
I have never seen one who, having firmly resolved to reach the ocean of bliss, might have remained short of it. When you have the proper means at your disposal, there is no reason why you cannot succeed.
What sort of individual should a seeker be? A seeker must be one who is blind to the charms of the world, is inspired with one object and one purpose, and thinking all the while of that alone which may be helpful to them in the attainment of the ideal.