Man’s Eternal Quest: Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life – Volume 1

not permit yourself to be bound by any habit of living; be able, rather, to change your habits as wisdom dictates. Learn to live rightly, using your power of free choice, guided by wisdom. Be able to sleep comfortably on a soft bed one night and just as comfortably on the floor the next night. That divine nonattachment to habit is the freedom advoc

Plain living and high thinking make for contentment. Keeping your mind on the plane of ideas will give you more happiness than if you dwell on externals.

Realization that all power to think, speak, feel, and act comes from God, and that He is ever with us, inspiring and guiding us, brings an instant freedom from nervousness.

one day, when you awaken in God—who is your real Self—the dream will be gone forever.

Drink and drugs are sins against the soul because they paralyze the will, without which soul-realization and salvation are impossible.

Develop an adamant attitude toward the body. “The ideas of heat and cold, of pleasure and pain, are produced by the contacts of the senses with their objects. Such ideas are limited by a beginning and an end. They are transitory; bear them with patience.”2 Why be so sensitive about a little cold or a little pain?

To use narcotics is one of the greatest sins against Spirit. Drink is the same. Both mean destruction of will power.

Rather one should vow, “I shall use memory only to recall good thoughts and experiences. From this moment I banish from my mind all unpleasant memories.

Your outer experiences should be only fun.

Follow a simple diet, exercise the body, and meditate daily—no matter what happens, rain or shine.