True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves!
Character is formed from the repeated choice of thoughts and action. Make the right choice-you shall have a firm and noble character.
Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
A fasting person is in a state of worship even if asleep in bed. Every breath he takes while asleep is ‘tasbih’, and his sleep itself is worship.
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.
At the time of God-realisation, nothing new is realised; on the contrary, the yogi feels that this state of God-consciousness which he is experiencing was already known to him.
When we see everything in life as a game, we will be equally joyous when falling as we are when rising. If we can fully understand this – if we can see life as swinging on a swing – we will never fall apart when failure comes our way.
The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.
If we only practice compassion at the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.
