If you have the desire, if you establish the goal - which is harmony, which is happiness through liberation- then these stages of revolt, of war, of struggle, can be avoided - should be avoided. You are not going to wallow in the gutter if you can jump over it.

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.

What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists.

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.

My chief concern is to make clear the Truth which I have attained, to give an understanding of the Truth, which is the Truth for all. And hence, if there is understanding rather than blind following, people will not create a religion.

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