When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all

Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die

I would teach my child to respect what is right - the word right is a difficult word to use - I would teach him to respect the intrinsic value of things. Do you see what I mean? The true proportion of things.

You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.

One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears.

True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.