throw all our weight, all our energy, and all our will on the side of what is patient, forgiving, and selfless in ourselves and others.

the guru, the spiritual teacher, is in every one of us. All that another person can do is to make us aware of the teacher within ourselves.

Right from the early days of marriage, or of any relationship, we must try to forget about rights and remember duties if the relationship is to last.

Mahatma Gandhi, who studied Sanskrit while in jail, pointed out that the Sanskrit word sat has two meanings: the first is ‘truth,’ and the second is ‘that which is.’ When asked for a definition of God, Gandhi said, “Truth is God. God alone is and nothing else exists.”

as long as our knowledge is limited to intellectual analysis, we will not have the capacity to make the world more peaceful;

Having made yourself alike in pain and pleasure, profit and loss, victory and defeat, engage in this great war and you will be freed from sin.

We are all granted a reasonable margin in life to make our experimentation with personal pleasure, but one day we must begin to suspect that it is not going to fulfill our deepest need, which is for Self-realization.

The man or woman who practices the teachings of these great scriptures will become aware of the unity of life, and this awareness will give constant strength and inspiration to those who seek to turn anger into compassion, fear into courage, and selfishness into self-forgetfulness in the joy of the whole.

Agitation, particularly the form that follows the precept “Express your anger; explode your anger on society,” is infectious, and this chain of retribution will eventually bring our agitation back to us.