“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.”

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.

Intuition is the only true guide in life.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

The audience changes every night. You’re the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

Dynamism is a function of change.

What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.

There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.

Can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.

You can’t change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.