Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?
To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?
Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.
If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.
Truth is a pathless land.
Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts.
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.