“If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.”

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.

Be a light unto oneself,

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees ‘what is’ and learns from ‘what was’.

No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

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.

To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.

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.

What you believe you experience.

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

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.

Courage is listening, learning, unlearning, knowing when to lead, and knowing when to let others lead.⁣

I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.

I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.

Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.

Have the courage and strength to be yourself. Because there is no other choice. Do you have a choice of being somebody else?