The only thing that stands between you and your well-being is a simple fact: you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instructions from the outside rather than within. - Sadhguru.

I am the servant of that God whom the ignorant call man. - Swami Vivekananda.

My child, hide nothing from me, depend on me for all your needs. - The Mother.

Oh, Soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are, in truth, the Soul of the Soul of the Soul. - Rumi.

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now. - Rumi.

The individual is not merely the ephemeral physical creature, a form of mind and body that aggregates and dissolves, but a being, living power of the eternal Truth, a self-manifesting Spirit. - Sri Aurobindo.

No one is you and that is your superpower. - Anonymous.

Show some skin and you get everyone's attention. Show some depth and everyone is afraid of heights. - Anonymous.

Do more of what you love, less of what you tolerate, and none of what you hate. - John Assaraf.

Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him. - Rumi.

When you come to a point where you have no need to impress anybody, your freedom will begin. - Anonymous.

In God's plan and play (Lila), the sole function of Satan or Maya is to attempt to divert man from Spirit to matter, from Reality to unreality. - Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.

O Thou Self-manifested cause and substance of creation, O Thou indwelling Self of all, Thou source of Illumination, guide me beyond Thy rays of creation, transport me beyond Thine objective form that, by Thy grace, I may behold Thy glorious Self. That absolute Self abiding in the transcendental effulgence, verily, I am He. - Isha Upanishad.

The Bhagavad Gita has emphasized again and again, however, that between all beings and their creator is an immortal bond - indulgently elastic but breakable never. None can stray so far as to withstand forever the pulling power of God's saving grace. - Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.

The paradox of our times is that we have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge but less judgment, more experts but fewer solutions. - Jay Shetty.

The irony of our time is that we have guided missiles but misguided men. - Martin Luther King.

So long as the lower nature is active, the personal effort of the Sadhaka remains necessary. The personal effort required is triple labour of aspiration, rejection and surrender. - Sri Aurobindo.

Everyone can be a perfect expression of the Divine in himself, on condition that he knows his place and keeps to it. - The Mother.

The best journey takes you home. - Anonymous.

What am I to do, but surrender to the will of my beloved. - Rumi.

I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am. - Charles Horton Cooley.

The only real purpose of life is to explore it in its fullest depth and dimension. - Sadhguru.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix.

What am I to do but surrender to the will of my beloved. - Rumi.

Disciple: What are the signs of progress in spiritual life?

Nisargadatta Maharaj: Freedom from anxiety; a sense of ease and joy; deep peace within and abundant energy without. I found it all in the holy presence of my Guru - I did nothing on my own. He told me to be quiet - and I did it - as much as I could.

In the pursuit of happiness, we have ripped the planet apart, but still, we are not happier. It is time to stop and look, because all human experience happens within you, not outside of you. - Sadhguru.

Disciple: There are a number of spiritual teachers, teaching various paths. Whom should one take for one's Guru?

Sri Ramana Maharishi: Choose one where you find you get Shanti or peace.

Everybody is seeking God for the truth, in different ways, thinking it is somewhere else. One has to just reverse and look within. - Sri M.

To do Sadhana, one has to find an appropriate time to sit in solitude and practice. Once one becomes an expert at this, Sadhana can be done anywhere in the world. - Sri M.

The search for one's true identity and happiness is not just reserved for monks or sanyasis. Every human being, without distinction, can embark upon this search. - Sri M.

Disciple: "Mother, how to go within?"

Mother: "Ah! I have spoken about it many times." She keeps silent for a very long time as if in trance and then speaks again. "Put your body in a comfortable position and start chanting OM. You will find that you are before a tunnel. A long, narrow tunnel. Go on chanting, go on chanting, intensely, wholeheartedly. You will find that the tunnel slowly gets illuminated. Go on, go on doing it as often as possible. You will find one day that you have come to the end of the tunnel, and at the core of your heart where the Lord is. It is a long process. But you are sure to arrive at it if you are sincere."

If you want to know wellbeing, IN is the only way out. - Sadhguru.

What you do should not define who you are, who you are should define what you do. - Sadhguru.

Bernard asked the Master, “What is the best way to transform emotion into devotion?”

“The company you keep” the Master replied, “will determine in what direction your feelings develop. In the company of devotees, those feelings will more easily become devotional.”

“Master,” pursued the disciple, “what if I am alone – for instance when I meditate?”

“Am I not always with you?” the Master replied with a loving smile.

(From the book Conversations with Yoganananda written by Swami Kriyananda)

No matter what kind of karma you gathered in the past, this moment's karma is always in your hands. - Sadhguru.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories. - Sri Aurobindo.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on. - Anonymous.

What is the fundamental virtue to be cultivated in order to prepare for the spiritual life?

I have said this many times, but this is an opportunity to repeat it it is sincerity. A sincerity that must become total and absolute, for sincerity alone is your protection on the spiritual path. If you are not sincere, at the very next step you are sure to fall and break your head. All kinds of forces, wills, influences, entities are there, on the look-out for the least little rift in this sincerity and they immediately rush in through that rift and begin to throw you into confusion. Therefore, before doing anything, beginning anything, trying anything, be sure first of all that you are not only as sincere as you can be, but have the intention of becoming still more so. For that is your only protection.

(From the Mother’s answer to a devotees question)