Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent.

Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.

You are creating your own hell.

Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger, it may be greed - but something in you must be the reason that is creating the misery.

The total absence of desire brings happiness. It also brings freedom and liberation, because whenever something is lacking there are both limits and dependency. Only when nothing at all is lacking is there the possibility of total freedom. Freedom brings happiness. And happiness is salvation.

That is one of the great secrets of life, that life is a movement. And if you are stuck somewhere you lose contact with life.

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .