Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems.

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.