To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.

Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.

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.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand or three hundred. I am like an artist who paints a picture because he must, otherwise he is unhappy - not unhappy, but he must obey that creative impulse.

To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.

Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.