Quotations

Get rid of the conventional ideas you may have about a teacher, because that prejudice may prevent you from seeing a real teacher.

Personal understanding and guidance are essential.

If your search for the Truth is serious, then the right kind of guidance will come in some way.

Each one of us, with our limitations, needs to understand the fact of how we are related to this world

Spiritual growth is coming to terms with reality, having an awareness of where we are, what we are doing, etc.

Once one is established in this silence, then no noise can disturb you

The closer we are to trees and nature, and further we are from human-made things, one’s mind can settle down more effortlessly.

If we have one mind, a change in one part should affect the other.

Peace is a state of mind that emerges from within.

The main idea is to watch ourselves diligently in our dealings with the world and see if we are changing, turning more human.

If we are making spiritual progress, don’t judge by how many visions or kind of lights one sees

Knowing oneself starts with knowing oneself in the midst of people, not alone.

In a pilgrimage when people come together, there is always a sharing and an emergence of our inner workings

The importance of a pilgrimage is in the act of walking.

The Buddha got his enlightenment under a peepal tree.