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.

If you have the desire, if you establish the goal - which is harmony, which is happiness through liberation- then these stages of revolt, of war, of struggle, can be avoided - should be avoided. You are not going to wallow in the gutter if you can jump over it.

Intuition is the only true guide in life.

Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.

If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Whether we call ourselves communists or capitalists, Hindus or Buddhists, Moslems or Christians, whether we are blind, lame, well or happy, this earth is ours...not somebody else's...it is not only the rich man's earth, but our earth...yours and mine.