Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.

Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state of the religious mind can be understood only when we begin to understand what beauty is; and the understanding of beauty must be approached through total aloneness.

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it.

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

Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?

One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope when you look at the expressions of life.