Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.
If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.
The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God.
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
Respect is heaven, respect is liberation.
It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false.
At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.
God has created the world in play, as it were.
As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet.
Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.
The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.
The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.
The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.