ahimsa paramo dharma: “The highest religion, the ultimate law of our being, is nonviolence.”

pass from fearful fragmentation To fearless fullness in the changeless whole.

If the Upanishads are like slides, the Dhammapada seems more like a field guide.

those who combine action with meditation Cross the sea of death through action And enter into immortality Through the practice of meditation.

The rasa of anything is subtler than it; it is its cause, its explanation, and the key to its significance; it is more real – more long-lasting – and the next step closer to the ultimate reality beyond both the knower and the known.

what will move us closer to that day and what will only postpone it – that is, between what is good and what is merely pleasant; in Sanskrit, between shreya and preya. While there are no dualities and no compartments in reality, as long as there are dualities and compartments in personality, we have to pay careful attention to this distinction at e

The Self reveals Himself to the one who longs for the Self. Those who long for the Self with all their heart Are chosen by the Self as his own.

The soul has so shrunken from view that far from standing awestruck by its infinitude we have difficulty remembering that it exists: indeed, why speak of soul; mind or consciousness play no role in the electrochemical image of the human being which popular imagination and some scientists today present unchallenged.

“You are That” (tat tvam asi) is one of the mahavakyas.