The greater the outward show, the greater the inward poverty.

Analysis does not transform consciousness.

Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action.

It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or agreement which causes us to work together, but an extraordinary feeling of togetherness, the sense of joy in being and doing together without any thought of reward or punishment.

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.

So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.

Only the mind that is totally impermanent, that is totally uncertain, can discover what is true because truth is not static.

Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?

Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.

Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In our relationships each of us builds an image about the other, and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves.

Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the observer nor the observed -- there is only observation taking place.

After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.

Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour -- whether that neighbour is near or very far away -- forget about meditation.

I do not know if you have noticed that faith invariably breeds violence.