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.
Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.
Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
Look what is happening in the world – we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.
To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
There’s a great and unutterable beauty in all this.
When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.
To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.
Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.