Spiritual Quotes Quotes

If love was a sin, God Himself would be in the hottest part of Hell.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love enters your heart a spark and exists your soul a flame.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Shine your light at all times, you never know who you are leading out of the dark.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

What you do for others today you have done for yourself tomorrow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love knows the way because love is the way.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love gives with its eyes closed, hate destroys with its eyes open.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Seeing the Pure Soul (Shuddhatma) in everyone is itself an intent of friendship towards the entire world.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Wealthy people build palaces with nine floors. At the time of their departure (dying), the palace jests with them, ‘You are going and here we remain standing!’ The palaces are not the only palaces, are they? The wife, the children – they are all palaces indeed!

~ Dada Bhagwan

People will listen to you when you become the ‘Embodiment of Love’ [Prem Swaroop]. When can you become the ‘Embodiment of Love’? When you do not look for laws or rules, When you do not see anyone at fault.

~ Dada Bhagwan

People do not know what good deeds are. It is udaya karma,unfolding effects of past karma; that makes them do the deeds. The prakruti, the relative self, forces them to do them. What is your own thing [effort] in that? Doing good deeds; that too is mandatory (farajiyat)!

~ Dada Bhagwan

What kind of egoism should one have? It should be such that people accept it.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Don’t some people say, ‘You did not value me’? What value did you have at all? Go ask the ocean, ‘what is my worth?’ You will be swept away with one wave. The owner of many waves has swept away many a people like you! Worth is in those people who have no attachment-abhorrence.

~ Dada Bhagwan

People get absorbed in chitchats with whomever they meet. They simply have to meet someone. Infinite energies are wasted in such chitchatting.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What harm does lying cause? One loses people’s trust. And once one loses trust, he becomes worthless.

~ Dada Bhagwan

People say, 'that bump caused me to trip', but the bump says, 'I am where I have always been. It's the wretched ones who can't see, they come my way and trip over!

~ Dada Bhagwan

People will not refrain from criticizing. But one should not keep on criticizing. The world is such that it will run smoothly without any criticism. This world is not worth interfering in. It is just worth ‘Knowing’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

People have the right to criticize you. You do not have the right to criticize anyone.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When Boredom comes, it is the time during which discovery is to be made. That is the time during which real effort (purushartha) can be made. But instead, people push it aside.

~ Dada Bhagwan

A king will say 'I killed thousands of people'. He is simply doing egoism; he is taking pleasure in taking credit of doership (garva ras). They were killed by those who were on the battle field. Why does the king needlessly take on the liability [of new karmic causes]? In doing so, those who did the killing are set free. The rule is that the liability falls upon the one doing egosim [of doerhip].

~ Dada Bhagwan

People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?

~ Dada Bhagwan

People on the worldly path, to them ‘we’ say, ‘Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do that, then practice honesty within principle of limits. If you cannot do that and if you practice dishonesty, do it within limits. This principle is indeed what will take you further ahead.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In this world, it is not possible to forget about obligation of these three people: father, mother and guru; the one who has made us walk on the correct path.

~ Dada Bhagwan

You are on a certain ‘step’. This state is meant for only you, it is not applicable to other people. Others are on a different ‘step’. Therefore you cannot pressurize anyone. You cannot have any ‘objection’ towards them.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In the battle for possession of souls and worlds, it is likely that all serve to only one master.

~ Robert Neil Fleischer

Vitragta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments] is the only way to ‘swim’ across lifetimes.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What would you ask for if you were given the freedom to chose something of your own volition (marjiyaat)? There is nothing in [all] mandatory (tasks) in which one can remain still. One after another, the needs will continue. It is only in the state of own’s own Self [the Soul], that one can remain burden-free.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The definition of freedom is that there is no dependency. Despite having the physical body, one feels no dependency.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In appearance, the worldly life looks attractive, but once you enter into it, you can never become free.

~ Dada Bhagwan

For how long will you keep on wandering around for infinite lifetimes? Your own light is not there. For how long will you keep on wandering in the dark? One has walked for billions and billions of miles and yet he has not seen the light. He has not found the right path. The truth will have to be known, will it not?

~ Dada Bhagwan

The body is doing the action, body’s spare-parts are doing the action and the egoism simply does the egoism of, ‘I did’! Subtle-pride of egoism is created from this doer-ship and one is living due entirely on this basis. He simply tastes the subtle-pride of doer-ship; ‘I did’, ‘I suffered this pain’, ‘I enjoyed that happiness’. The person who gets rid of this subtle-pride will get freedom. Why does one taste this sweetness of subtle-pride of doership from infinite lives? He does this because he has never before tasted the sweetness of the Soul.

~ Dada Bhagwan

You were born to shine, don’t ever let anyone steal your light.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Jealousy stings, envy poisons, anger harms, and hate murders.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, treasure God.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Expand your mind. Nurture your heart. Develop your body. Cultivate your soul.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Mind-power takes you to the mountaintop. Heart-power takes you the stars. Soul-power takes you to the edge of the universe.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Forgive those who hurt you yesterday.Reward those who help you today.Remember those who help you tomorrow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo