This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.

We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.