- “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
- “Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.”
- “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
- “The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom.”
- “One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”
- “The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.”
- “Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.”
- “A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.”
- “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”
- “In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand.”
- “We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.”
- “The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.”
- “The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgement.”
- “It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
- “Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”
- “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.”
- “When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.”
- “You can only be afraid of what you think you know.”
- “Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it.”
- “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.”
- “Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person.”
- “To be free, you have to examine your own mind.”
- “The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.”
- “A mind that is seeking is not a passionate mind and to come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it.”
- “The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.”
- “There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”
- “We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young – not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age – and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.”
- “The observer is the observed.”
- “Truth is a pathless land.”
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