When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.

If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly.

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation.

It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence.