To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure… Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
Corruption inside is most dangerous, so don’t be corrupt. Begin here first, not out there.
You are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself.
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, which has so unfortunately divided man.
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is. The guru can give you words; he can give you an explanation, the symbols of the mind, but the symbol is not the real, and if you are caught in the symbol, you will never find the way.