The culture of the country is marked with guidelines for achieving eternal bliss, which is the consummation of all sweetness, all joy and fulfillment of all desires. But today, each one is struggling to achieve petty things, paltry joys and low desires. When you seek God, you must not be misled into bypaths and mirages. The seeker of the gold must cast away brass and other yellow metals that may distract him. Like the river which leaps over precipices, creeps through bush and briar, flows round hills, seeps through sand, but keeps the goal always in view, one should march untiringly towards God.

- Divine Discourse, April 1, 1975.

If you have the inclination to do good work, God will give you the time to do good things. - Baba