Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

My chief concern is to make clear the Truth which I have attained, to give an understanding of the Truth, which is the Truth for all. And hence, if there is understanding rather than blind following, people will not create a religion.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.