Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.

I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that person as a human being. I do not say "This is a man; this is a woman."

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.