Want nothing and you will have everything

1. He who works for me does not oblige me, for he works for his own self.
    
2. The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants; and it is characterised by sufficiency or contentment.
    
3. Desire for nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.
    
4. Solitude is one of the essential conditions of at-taining success in meditation.
    
5. Love God sincerely and he will reveal himself . . , sacrifice everything at the altar of this supreme love, you will realize the Beloved within you.
    
6. The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and the wants of man remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.
    
7. The only Real Existence is that of the One and only God, who is the Self in every (finite) self.
    
8. The ideal prayer to the Lord is nothing more than spontaneous praise of his being. You praise him, not in the spirit of bargain but in the spirit of self-forgetfulness.
    
9. Love is nothing if it is not spontaneous. It cannot be a conclusion of reasoning. It is not a fruit of the spirit of bargain. If you want to be certain about the object of love before giving your love, it is only a form of calculating selfishness.
    
10. The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things.
     
11. As long as man remains ignorant of his divine Self he may as well be a stone; a man lives and a stone exists, and both remain equally ignorant of the Truth. As Kabir says, while man cannot achieve TRUTH he is no better than a stone.
     
12. The masses who try to attain the Truth by following rites and rituals are, as it were, in the goods train which is detained indefinitely at various stations. Those who sincerely and devotedly meditate on God or dedicate their lives to the service of humanity are, as it were, in the ordinary train which stops at every station according to the time-table. But those who seek the company of the Truth-realized Master and carry out his orders in full surrenderance and faith are, as it were, in a special train which will take them to the goal in the shortest possible time, without halts at intermediate stations.