Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
When you chant the Name, it actually moves through your whole being - purifying you, bestowing grace, and making you sacred…Chanting breaks down the barriers between you and your own heart.
True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.
The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
In the Kingdom of Heaven, true love is fulfilled centered on parental love… The family is the original base of true love…
Slowly and steadily cleanse the mind; sharpen the intellect, purify the senses, and win grace.
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

