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.

“Believing that fulfillment of bodily desires is man’s highest aim, confident that this world is ‘all,’ such persons are engrossed till the moment of death in earthly cares and concerns.”6 Parents should try to equip their

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.

The purpose of this life is to find your Self. Know your Self. Feel the throb of the ocean of God’s presence in your heart. Suppose you are floating in the ocean, rocked on the bosom of its mighty vastness, and when you swim ashore, you still feel the whole ocean, surging behind you as you walk onto the beach—this is the way I feel God. He never le

The greatest enemy of divine realization is the body; it becomes easily tired and wants to give up. A true devotee never relaxes his effort nor admits the supremacy of the body.

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

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