People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house."

So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business.

The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

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

If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.

Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.