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.

The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.

You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.

Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office.