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.

The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

To be religious is to be sensitive to reality.

Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately.