Happy is the man who is nothing.

Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.

Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness There is a poem, there is a song. Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring. When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with The music of many leaves, Which in due season fall and are blown away. And this is the way of life.

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.

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