Occupation: Writer Birth: July 9, 1918 Death: March 22, 2007
*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path..
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque..
Man is just a memory. You understand things around you by the help of the knowledge that was put in you. You perhaps need the artist to explain his m….
I have searched everywhere to find an answer to my question, 'Is there enlightenment?' but have never questioned the search itself. Because I have as….
Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than a….
There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God..
The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living..
If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone,….
Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow..
All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gatheri….
If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more enlightened he is, the ….
There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of ….
Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception..
Charity is the filthiest invention of the human mind: first you steal what belongs to everyone; then you use the law and various other means to prote….
You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total 'surrender'. It is a state of hopelessness which says that the….
My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I wouldn’t advise you ….
Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelli….
What is there to understand? The significance of life? How long will it take to understand the significance and the meaning of life? 20 years? 30 yea….
The body is a fortuitous concourse of atoms. There is no death for the body, only an exchange of atoms. Their changing places and taking different fo….
This question haunted me all my life and suddenly it hit me: 'There is no self to realize. What the hell have I been doing all this time?' You see, t….
All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy..