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.

Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course.

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is nothing in the world, that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing.