People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You dont change. But when you understand it, it changes.

Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.

Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.