Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

Without freedom, there is no creation.