When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved. That happens when the mind is still, in the interval between two thoughts, between two responses. In that state of mind, understanding comes.

[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.

Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather than love, why greed and not generosity, why self-centred activity and not open total action? Why be mean when there are soaring mountains and flashing streams? Why jealousy and not love? Why?