Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.