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

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

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.

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.

To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is not meditation, then what is? Surely, meditation is to understand every thought that comes into being, and not to dwell upon one particular thought; it is to invite all thoughts so that you understand the whole process of thinking.

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?

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