Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.
We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary we do not need to travel around the world when the source of all joy and all beauty is right within us.
Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)
I have tremendous respect for anyone who can control his palate enough to learn not only to drink beer but to enjoy it too.
The mind is powerful, but it needs something to hold on to so it doesn’t wander.
Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.
A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.
The goal of meditation is awareness, not relaxation.
Those who indulge themselves in sense stimulation throughout their lives often end up exhausted, with an enfeebled will and little capacity to love others.
Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.
Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.