Occupation: Author Birth: June 16, 1924 Death: November 23, 1996
The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans..
The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep..
Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind..
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man….
Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening..
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken..
The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service.
Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information..
To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides..
None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting..
No practice exists in isolation..
A real secret is something which only one person knows..
Worry is a cloud which rains destruction..
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day..
Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous..
The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age..
A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence..
You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remem….
Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be..
Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?.
If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you….