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

As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery.

And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.