One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

It is only in alert silence that truth can be.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

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

Truth is more in the process than in the result.

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

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.

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don't love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not.

Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.

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

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

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.

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

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.