The Self, having in dreams enjoyed the pleasures of sense, gone hither and thither, experienced good and evil, hastens back to the state of waking from which he started. As a man passes from dream to wakefulness, so does he pass from this life to the next.
Internally I am a hermit, and externally I am a prince. Arms mean protection to the poor and destruction of the tyrant. Baba Nanak had not renounced the world but had renounced maya, that is, self and ego.
You should discover your own reality and not thwart yourself. For you have the self as your only friend, or as your only enemy.
All the lights of the world cannot be compared even to a ray of inner light of the Self.
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.
Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the real you sleeping in your heart.
That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
