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

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

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

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.