The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no obedience.
There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.
Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.
It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.
We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.
To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.
If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.
I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence.
A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.
Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.
The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.
The thought is not the thing.
If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
Meditation is the movement of love. It isn’t the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.
In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man.
Truth is something which you must see immediately, and to see something clearly you must give your heart, mind and whole being.
You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.
Most of us waste our energy through chattering – endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.
You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don’t live it.