Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.

The enemy is not the other, the enemy is you

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

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

As the world has to attain the fulfilment of eternal life, to me it does not in the least matter what I am called -'Enlightened One', 'Son of God', or something else. To me, it has no purpose - as little as when the Buddha said, 'I am the Enlightened One'.

As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life don't accept a thing, but inquire, investigate. Then you will find that your mind is something really extraordinary, it has no end, and to such a mind there is no death.