What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in the past determines what is going to happen next, and we do not see that it is exactly the other way around! What is always the source of the world is the present; the past doesn't explain a thing. The past trails behind the present like the wake of a ship and eventually disappears.