The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately.

As the world has to attain the fulfilment of eternal life, to me it does not in the least matter what I am called -'Enlightened One', 'Son of God', or something else. To me, it has no purpose - as little as when the Buddha said, 'I am the Enlightened One'.

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. To completely empty the whole content of the mind — that is real freedom.