The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

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

We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall.

Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had it; and, because we do not know how to judge anything, we have been led here and pushed there, beaten up, driven, politically, religiously and socially. We don't know, but it is difficult to say we don't know.

There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all