One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears.

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.

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

If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly.

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

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

A mind that practices love cannot love.