In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.

There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.

As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery.

Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.