It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

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.

Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

Truth does not belong to an individual.

You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, "What did that man pick up?" "He picked up a piece of the truth," said the devil. "That is a very bad business for you, then," said his friend. "Oh, not at all," the devil replied, "I am going to help him organize it."