Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall.

Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that -perhaps you won't, but it doesn't matter, just listen to this- you will find that there is an extraordinary space in the mind, and that space is freedom. So you must demand freedom at the very beginning, and not just wait, hoping to have it at the end. You must seek out the significance of freedom in your work, in your relationships, in everything that you do. Then you will find that meditation is creation.

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

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.