You are not born in this world to strut about for a while on the stage, consuming food and making merry. You came into the world so that you may bask in the presence of God, through the exercise of love and the cultivation of love. If you deny God angrily, you are drying up the strings of love in your heart. The earth is a great enterprise, a busy factory, where the product is love. By means of Sadhana (spiritual practice), it is possible to produce love and export it to millions and millions of people in need of it. The more it is shared the deeper it becomes, the sweeter it tastes and the greater is the joy. One can approach God and stay in His presence by means of love, for God is love, and when one lives in love, one lives in God and with God.

- Divine Discourse, Jan 1, 1971.