If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we ourselves have ceased to question.