Only people who carry the opinions of others need the support of others.

Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen.

Zen is a kind of unlearning. It teaches you how to drop that which you have learned, how to become unskillful again, how to become a child again, how to start existing without mind again, how to be here without any mind.

Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.

No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little silence, a little love, a little more humanity... just a little more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it.

A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.