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.

Intelligence is the seeing of what is.

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

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.

There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all

Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.

Freedom is now or never.