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

If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.