Without freedom, there is no creation.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you want to gain or to have power or happiness. Now this destroys true criticism. Your desire is perverted through attributing values, and therefore you cannot see clearly. Instead of trying to see the flower in its original and entire beauty, you look at it through coloured glasses, and therefore you can never see it as it is.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.