Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and therefore to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees - everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now and we will have no wars.

Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.