It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.

If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.

I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that person as a human being. I do not say "This is a man; this is a woman."

Without freedom, there is no creation.

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.

The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no obedience.