Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.

We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.