It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin.

Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches another's words in his mouth, and gives them out again undigested, to enter into me through my eyes.

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.