The reality is that I am the Teacher.

But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.

To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality.

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.

The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean that it has built up a lot of resistance - on the contrary, such a mind is dying to everything that it has known in which there has been conflict, pleasure and pain. Only then is the mind innocent; that means it can love. You cannot love with memory, love is not a matter of remembrance, of time.