Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.

You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.

But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals in the superficial sense of being very clever, full of words and theories about what is right and what is wrong, about how we should think, what we should do. Mentally we are highly developed, but inwardly there is very little substance or significance; and it is this inward substance that brings about true action, which is not action according to an idea.