"Co-operation is only possible when there is no 'authority'. You know, that is one of the most dangerous things in the world 'authority'. One assumes 'authority' in the name of an ideology, or in the name of God, or Truth, and an individual, or group of people, who...
"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right."
"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be."
"Order is virtue. And order isn’t a thing to be cultivated; you can’t say 'I will be orderly', 'I will do this and I won’t do that'—then you are merely disciplining yourself, becoming more and more rigid, mechanical. Such a mind is totally incapable of coming upon...
"If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbor - whether that neighbor is near or very far away - forget about meditation..."
"Beauty is complete order. But most of us have not that sense of beauty in our lives. We may be great artists, great painters, expert in various things, but in our own daily life, with all the anxieties and miseries, we live, unfortunately, a very disordered life. It...