Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation.

You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content; and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician.

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.

The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.