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"To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way that leads to permanent peace and happiness."
"Spirit vibrated into matter; hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to us. It exists as we see it owing to the delusive force of maya, which makes the indivisible Spirit seem finite and divisible to all appearances. Matter has existence in the same delusive way as does a mirage in the desert."
"Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death."
"People are so skillful in their ignorance!"
"In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness."
"Each minute of life should be a divine quest."
"As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form."
"You had to fight to get into the womb. Not only you but many souls rushed to enter, and the ones that won are you, and you and I. It was not an easy victory."
"You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained."
"Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God."
"Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God."
"Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it."
"It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in hope of fulfilling a want by its actual presence in the future. If objects were pleasurable in themselves, then the same dress or food would always please everyone, which is not the case."
"Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things."
"Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells."
"Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from imperfections in his discernment. The goal of Yoga Science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the Divine vision in the Universe."
"Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are spirit."
"The Bhagavad-Gita is where God Himself talks to His devotee Arjuna."
"Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service."
"Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook."