"On the one hand people will respect poverty, and on the other hand they will say, 'Serve the poor.' Strange! If poverty is so spiritual then the most spiritual thing will be to make every rich man, poor. Help the rich man to be poor, so he can become spiritual. Why...
"It is important to understand what this self-knowing is, just to be aware, without any choice, of the 'me' which has its source in a bundle of memories - just to be conscious of it without interpretation, merely to observe the movement of the mind."
"You cannot meditate if you are ambitious - you may play with the idea of meditation. If your mind is authority-ridden, bound by tradition, accepting, following, you will never know what it is to meditate on this extraordinary beauty."
"It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because...
"He who has freed himself of the disease of 'tomorrow' has a chance to attain what he came here for."
"Don't judge a man by the tales of others."
"A true sign of a good man is if he loves his father and mother."
"If you already know it is bad and do it, you commit a sin difficult to redress."
"Know that this house can be useful only to those who have recognized their nothingness and who believe in the possibility of changing."
"Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself - only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity."