You are not orderly deeply within yourself, and so you discipline yourself from morning to night, as so many people do. So many so-called saints […]

“Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know […]

Fear is never in the present, it is always evoked through thought: what will happen? So fear, thought and time go together. If one is […]

Man needs exposures on every point wherever politics has entered in and it has entered everywhere, in every relationship. It has contaminated the whole life […]

Without security, the brain cannot function properly. So where are you to find real, deep, abiding security? Not in thought or books or the things […]

Compromise is one of the most ugly words in our language. It means, I give half, you give half; I settle for half, you settle […]

When the mind is completely silent, it is whole, complete. It is not functioning in fragments – there is no division as silence and noise, […]

Obedience needs no intelligence. All machines are obedient. Nobody has ever heard of a disobedient machine. Obedience is simple, too. It takes the burden off […]

Passion implies austerity – not the austerity of the monk or the disciplinarian but to be austere without any cause, without any demand. Austerity is […]

The ultimate growth is to say yes with such joy as a child says no. That is a second childhood. And the man who can […]