Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?
Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.
If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go after it. If I go after it I am going after something which is the known, projected by me; by my own mind.
The flowering of love is meditation.
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known.
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
What you believe you experience.
The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.
Truth is more in the process than in the result.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all...
Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?
Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which he builds temples.
The enemy is not the other, the enemy is you.
Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
Where there is fear there is aggression.