Freedom of life does not mean disorder of life, does not mean chaos, and just everyone doing anything he wants. That is not the freedom of life. The tree, when you give it a chance, protect it when it is young, will grow straight, because it has developed its own resistance; but the moment you make it delicate, then it gets crooked.

Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.

To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with.

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 primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.