The mind steeped in the Love of God is beyond any shock and strain like the chloroformed patient who is oblivious of the incisions made by the surgical instruments. Love, only of this kind, can ultimately be victorious. Pain is a part of life, and must be accepted at any cost. Pleasure is an interval between two pains. But today, the devotion of people wavers with every trying circumstance. When our wishes are fulfilled, we install many photographs for worship; and when they are unfulfilled, we throw out all the photographs. We must cultivate the temperament that makes us view pleasure and pain alike. Both pain and pleasure are gifts of God, for there is no pleasure without pain, and no pain without pleasure. Culture lies in seeing this unity of pain and pleasure.

- Summer Showers, 1996.

Follow the master, face the devil, fight to the end, and finish the game. - Baba