The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustrati...
Most of us waste this extraordinary thing called life. We have lived forty or sixty years, have gone to the office, engaged ourselves in social activity, escaping in various forms, and at the end of i...
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various...
Happy is the man who is nothing.
If I am all the time measuring myself against you, struggling to be like you, then I am denying what I am myself. Therefore I am creating an illusion. When I have understood that comparison in any for...
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.
Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not...
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through...
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
One is never afraid of the unknown one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
If we can really understand the problem the answer will come out of it because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.