“Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own”

“In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, bu...”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.”

“The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.”

“Love comes into being through useful service to others.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”

“And the young Fisherman said to himself: "How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped p...”

“If there is no desire for prayer, maybe there is no hunger for God.”

“Pray to God one minute, listen to Him for one hour.”