Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression .

To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.

I should say that all compromise is a "stepping down" of the Truth, is trying to reduce something which cannot be reduced, and that for anyone who has understood life these compromises are impossible.