The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

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.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is not meditation, then what is? Surely, meditation is to understand every thought that comes into being, and not to dwell upon one particular thought; it is to invite all thoughts so that you understand the whole process of thinking.

To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.