To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

Truth is a pathless land.

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

When we stop learning in our relationship, whether we are studying, playing or whatever we are doing, and merely act from the knowledge we have accumulated, then disorder comes.

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