You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are not free to watch, if you are not free to listen, if you are not free to be considerate. This problem of freedom and order is one of the most difficult and urgent problems in life. It is a very complex problem. It needs to be thought over much more than mathematics, geography, or history.

If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.

The real is near, you do not have to seek it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it. Truth is in what is - and that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment you seek it, you begin to struggle; and a man who struggles cannot understand. That is why we have to be still, observant, passively aware.

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.