194 quotes
Hold back your mind from pride, for pride comes only from ignorance. The man who does not know thinks that he is great, that he has done this or that great thing; the wise man knows that only God is great, that all good work is done by God alone.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.
When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now, and we will have no wars.
Talks in Saanen (1974)
If a hint is not taken, if a word is missed, it is lost forever; for He does not speak twice.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Truth is a Pathless Land (1929)
It is not so much desire as will, resolve, determination.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?
You may have power, position, but at the end of it — what? Please, this is a serious question that you must ask yourself. Another cannot answer this question for you.
That Benediction is Where You Are (1985)
The first of these Qualifications is Discrimination; and this is usually taken as the discrimination between the real and the unreal which leads men to enter the Path.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.
Truth is a Pathless Land (1929)
Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?
What does it mean to be compassionate? Not merely verbally, but actually to be compassionate?
When you give complete attention there is no recording. It is only when there is not attention, inattention, you record.
It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.
On Mind and Thought (1993)
Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?
These are not my words; they are the words of the Master who taught me. Without Him I could have done nothing, but through His help I have set my feet upon the Path.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
Now, one sees all that by observing, by being aware, watching, one is aware of all this. Then out of that awareness you see there is no division between the observer and the observed.
Truth is not something in the distance; there is no path to it, there is neither your path nor my path; there is no devotional path, there is no path of knowledge or path of action, because truth has no path to it.
Many crimes have men committed in the name of the God of Love, moved by this nightmare of superstition; be very careful therefore that no slightest trace of it remains in you.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.
Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning (1963)