Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.

The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.

To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.

You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.

Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.