Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.

That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.

Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.

The man-made laws have been made by men who have not perceived the final goal towards which they are making. And that is why it is so important to insist upon the final thing first, and then all the regulations, all the disciplines, will follow.

My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.