The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.

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.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a revolt.

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain

If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.

Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.