When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.

A mind that practices love cannot love.

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man.

Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.