A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.

That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.

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.

If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.