A yogi who perceives his real Self as separate from his active senses and their objects never becomes attached to anything. He is aware of the dream nature of the universe and watches it without being entangled in its complex but ephemeral nature.
When a man honours his father and mother, God says, “I regard it as though I had dwelt among them and they had honoured me."
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense - world into the sea of peace that is the sage.

