“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.”

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.

Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

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

Despair exists only when there is hope.

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.

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.

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

Intuition is the whisper of the soul.

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

We are all just humans trying to survive in this crazy world, in the spaces between birth and death.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

I could lose myself in you or die blissfully, trying.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

One day I will fall gracefully to pieces. Until then, I’ll just fall.

Death means my present physical costume ends.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don’t want you singing at my funeral.