“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’.”

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.

Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.

If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.

I usually control the environment I’m in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

Power over the self and no desire to control anything else.

I’m in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

I’m not a control freak in that like I boss everybody around, but like a control freak and like, I like knowing exactly what I get to do that day and having a say.