Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die

If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion.

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.