Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.

You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.