“Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.”

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.

Silence is also conversation.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.

Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.

Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.

The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead.

I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.

I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: