If you meditate earnestly, pure in mind and kind in deeds, leading a disciplined life in harmony with the dharma, you will grow in glory. If you meditate earnestly, through spiritual disciplines you can make an island for yourself that no flood can overwhelm.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.

The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.