“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

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.

Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

Those who play a safe game die very safely.

Most people like to live in illusions.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

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. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

Fear is nonacceptance of what is.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Some times your best effort just isn’t good enough.