Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain.
Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.
The ambitious man has never found his true vocation...
You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.
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.