You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

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.

War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.

Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.

To be religious is to be sensitive to reality.