It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end.

One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.

Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

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.