Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?

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

The description is not the described.

You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.

To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or agreement which causes us to work together, but an extraordinary feeling of togetherness, the sense of joy in being and doing together without any thought of reward or punishment.