After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.

Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

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.