We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.

If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation.

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.