We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors).

There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled - by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.