Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation.