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

What you are is much greater than anything or anyone else you have ever yearned for. God is manifest in you in a way that He is not manifest in any other human being. Your face is unlike anyone else’s, your soul is unlike anyone else’s, you are sufficient unto yourself; for within your soul lies the greatest treasure of all—God.

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

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.

Keep a diary of your spiritual life. I used to make a record of how long I had meditated daily and how deep I had gone. Seek solitude as much as possible. Do not spend your leisure in mixing with people for merely social purposes.

Behind every material object is an astral blueprint of colored light. In the astral world everything is motion, everything is living; there is nothing called “dead.” Even in the physical world death is not cessation of life, only a change into a different form. Life is still throbbing in the “lifeless” object. In the bones of dead animals I have be

The moment you think you have attained everything, you have circumscribed yourself. Search on and on, continuously, and in the valley of your humbleness will gather the ocean of God’s wisdom.

You can never know Him except through humbleness, wisdom, and devotion. The humble man is the one who will know God.

You need never worry that by meditation (or by imagination or by the practice of inner silence) you may go out of the body and fail to return. That idea is entirely false. The maya-induced attachment to the body is so powerful that you can’t escape from it that easily! Even if your ordinary waking awareness is obliterated, so long as your subconsci

Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have. If you conduct yourself in accord with the truths I am telling you, you will find your life beautifully di