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

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

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

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.