A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.
Be a light unto oneself.
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.
Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.
As we are – the world is.
Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.
What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.
If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.
Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.
From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.
Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.
There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
All tradition is merely the past.
The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.
Each breath is transforming me into thine image.
To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one’s own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.
When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.