Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.

To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality.

Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.

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.

The man-made laws have been made by men who have not perceived the final goal towards which they are making. And that is why it is so important to insist upon the final thing first, and then all the regulations, all the disciplines, will follow.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.