If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

Only the free mind knows what Love is.

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

What is of great importance is that everyone should concern himself with what I am saying, rather than with the personality of the Teacher, the body of the Teacher, where He dwells, and so on. That will lead to confusion.

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

I hold that all the Teachers of the world have attained that Life which is the fulfilment of life. Hence, whenever anyone enters that Life, which is the culmination of all life, then he is ipso facto the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, because there is no distinction there.