The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.

Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.

When you are free, you have no choice.

Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

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