“In the sanctuary of silence / beauty comes to life. / Freedom is the blossom. / Love is the perfume, / compassion its graceful way of walking.”

“As soon as there is awareness of wholeness, every moment becomes sacred, every movement is sacred.”

— Vimala Thakar, Totality in Essence* (1986)

“In this era, to become a spiritual inquirer without social consciousness is a luxury that we can ill …”

— Vimala Thakar, Spirituality and Social Action

“The challenge awaiting us is to go much deeper as human beings, to expand understanding to a global …”

— Vimala Thakar, Spirituality and Social Action

“We will in all our actions be whole, total, natural, without effort. Every action or nonaction will …”

— Vimala Thakar, Spirituality and Social Action

“When awareness of the totality, of wholeness, dawns upon the heart, and there is awareness of the …”

— Vimala Thakar, The Eloquence of Living* (1989)