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.

Without freedom, there is no creation.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

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

The real is near, you do not have to seek it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it. Truth is in what is - and that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment you seek it, you begin to struggle; and a man who struggles cannot understand. That is why we have to be still, observant, passively aware.