Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.

If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.

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.

The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean that it has built up a lot of resistance - on the contrary, such a mind is dying to everything that it has known in which there has been conflict, pleasure and pain. Only then is the mind innocent; that means it can love. You cannot love with memory, love is not a matter of remembrance, of time.

Whether we call ourselves communists or capitalists, Hindus or Buddhists, Moslems or Christians, whether we are blind, lame, well or happy, this earth is ours...not somebody else's...it is not only the rich man's earth, but our earth...yours and mine.