Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. To completely empty the whole content of the mind — that is real freedom.

Meditation is the action of silence.

Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.

Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state of the religious mind can be understood only when we begin to understand what beauty is; and the understanding of beauty must be approached through total aloneness.

It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.