Occupation: Writer Birth: July 9, 1918 Death: March 22, 2007
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..
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….
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….
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….
There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God..
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….
*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path..
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….
To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from ….
The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but whatever you ….
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….
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 such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise, which you call truth..
You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!.
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,….
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 ….
All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gatheri….
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….
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque..