Occupation: Writer Birth: September 4, 1931 Death: June 2, 1987
To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance..
The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the win….
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable..
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance..
You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend..
We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known..
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it..
Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth..
People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas..
The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at you….
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are alway….
If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I ….
No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong..
The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the ….
Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No p….
A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody c….
Is there life before death? - that is the question!.
Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and cont….
If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment t….
Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new..
The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recogniti….