A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.

With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney. You HAVE to be real because when you are encountering nature, nature creates something in you which is natural. Responding to nature continuously, you become natural.

Only a man of inner silences becomes a creator. And we need more and more creative people in the world. Their very creativity, their very silence, their very love, their very peace will be the only way to protect this beautiful planet.

I don't teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of years.

To live in relationship and yet remain independent, that is what courage is.

My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.