Do not try to keep quiet, do not make being quiet into a task to be performed. Don't be restless about being quiet, miserable about being happy.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.

~ Sri Ramakrishna

You are what all happenings happen in. What happens must happen so remain unaffected as peace. Be peaceful and this peace will spread. What rises from peace is peace and what rises from confusion is confusion. So be peace and give this to the universe, it is all you should do. Even thinking "I am peace" disturbs this peace, so just be quiet, be as you are.

~ Papaji

All effort at controlling thoughts, appetites and desires
cannot but strengthen them along with the ego. What-
ever has to go must fall off by itself. All that you are
concerned with, all that you are, is the impersonal
functioning of understanding. So let that understanding
work through witnessing without judgment, knowing that
there is nothing else that you can do.

- Ramesh S. Balsekar

See everything
Overlook a great deal
Improve a little

~ Pope John XXIII

"Maintain your peace at all costs. When I say `at all costs' I mean that. At all costs maintain your peace. You can renounce anything and everything, but not your peace. When you are peaceful, everything and everyone want to be with you. Everything likes a peaceful person: Money likes the peaceful person, position likes the peaceful person, power likes the peaceful person. They all come to you whether you want it or not because they love to be with you. Seek that kingdom of no want. The Bible says, `Seek first the Kingdom of God, and everything else will be added unto you. ' Seek that Kingdom of God. That's your first and foremost duty. If you've done that, everything else will be simply added unto you. The Kingdom of God is within you. That Kingdom is in the form of peace. So, may God bless us with that kind of supreme, supreme, supreme peace. God bless you. Om Shanthi, Shanthi, Shanthi."

~ Sri Swami Satchidananda

It's very simple. Keep your body as clean as possible,
your mind as clear as possible. That's all you need.
And do it in anyway you can, in your own way.
It doesn't matter. That's why I say 'peaceful body,
peaceful mind'. And then you'll be useful.
You don't have to 'become' a useful person.
You will be useful.

~ Swami Satchidananda

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential.
In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably
not even aware of the things they've taught me.

~ Scott Adams

The pawn
Always sits stunned,
Chained, unable to move
Beneath God's magnificent power.
It is essential for the heart's coronation
For the pawn to realize
There is nothing but divine movement
In this
World.

~ Hafiz