“We will in all our actions be whole, total, natural, without effort. Every action or nonaction will have the perfume of wholeness.”

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

— Vimala Thakar, Totality in Essence* (1986)

“In the sanctuary of silence / beauty comes to life. / Freedom is the blossom. / Love is the perfume, …”

— Vimala Thakar, Poetry

“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

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

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