Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing in one's relationship with others in order not to be hurt more. In that there is fear and a gradual isolation. Now, we are asking: Is it possible not only to be free of past hurts but also never to be hurt again?

The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence

If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.