Man’s Eternal Quest: Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life – Volume 1

The moment you think you have attained everything, you have circumscribed yourself. Search on and on, continuously, and in the valley of your humbleness will gather the ocean of God’s wisdom.

Keep a diary of your spiritual life. I used to make a record of how long I had meditated daily and how deep I had gone. Seek solitude as much as possible. Do not spend your leisure in mixing with people for merely social purposes.

you are constantly thinking that He is walking through your feet, working through your hands, accomplishing through your will, you will know Him.

American people is their ability to laugh. To be able to laugh

Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have. If you conduct yourself in accord with the truths I am telling you, you will find your life beautifully di

Those who understand the subtle relationship between the visible and the invisible man can dematerialize and materialize the physical body at will.4 We are coming to that evolutionary period during which we will realize increasingly that we are really invisible beings, or souls.

The purpose of this life is to find your Self. Know your Self. Feel the throb of the ocean of God’s presence in your heart. Suppose you are floating in the ocean, rocked on the bosom of its mighty vastness, and when you swim ashore, you still feel the whole ocean, surging behind you as you walk onto the beach—this is the way I feel God. He never le

Being made in the image of God, man can live in the body completely separate from physical sensations. But instead he adopts the conditions of the body as though they were his own. To be free of sensations, one has to separate himself mentally from the body. Therefore, the saints teach mental detachment from both pleasure and pain. To understand an

What you are is much greater than anything or anyone else you have ever yearned for. God is manifest in you in a way that He is not manifest in any other human being. Your face is unlike anyone else’s, your soul is unlike anyone else’s, you are sufficient unto yourself; for within your soul lies the greatest treasure of all—God.