Love may be the ultimate solution to all man’s difficulties, problems and travails.
The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.
Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.
Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.
Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.
The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.
Freedom is now or never.
Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.
Freedom from something is not freedom.
To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.
It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don’t have to do a thing.
Love, and don’t be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.
Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.
Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?
No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
Can thought be silent?
To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.
The very word “sorrow” colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.