Your whole past hangs around you with nothing completed - because nothing has been lived really, everything somehow bypassed, partially lived, only so-so, in a lukewarm way. There has been no intensity, no passion. You have been moving like a somnambulist, a sleepwalker. So that past hangs, and the future creates fear. And between the past and the future is crushed your present, the only reality.

In the Lotus Sutra, it is said everything is emptiness - this world is empty, hell is empty, heaven is empty, God is empty, everything is emptiness. Emptiness is the nature of all things, nothingness, so be attuned to nothingness and you will achieve.

It is not that the intellect sometimes misunderstands. Rather, the intellect always misunderstands. It is not that the intellect sometimes errs, it is that the intellect is the error.

Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.

In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.

There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.

If you are aware, you speak with awareness. But the awareness comes from the inward being. It flows from the inner being towards others.