30 quotes
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, and nothing is put in its place.
Mind is a Myth (1987)
Nature is interested in only two things — to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.
No Way Out (2002)
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
Mind is a Myth (1987)
They are a bunch of exploiters, thriving on the gullibility of the people.
The Mystique of Enlightenment (1982)
Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.
Our mind (and there are no individual minds — only "mind", which is the accumulation of man's knowledge and experience) has created the notion of the psyche and evolution.
Mind is a Myth (1987)
Whether you are interested in moksha, liberation, freedom, transformation, you name it, you are interested in happiness without one moment of unhappiness, pleasure without pain, it is the same thing.
No Way Out (2002)
But there is no way you can have one without the other. This demand is not in the interest of the survival of this living organism.
No Way Out (2002)
The very thing that is creating the frontiers and differences cannot be the means to bridge the different viewpoints. It is an exercise in futility.
No Way Out (2002)
People call me an enlightened man — I detest that term — they can't find any other word to describe the way I am functioning.
The Mystique of Enlightenment (1982)
There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your "logically" ascertained premise, which you call "truth".
Mind is a Myth (1987)
If nature had been allowed to go on in its own way, everybody would have become a unique flower. Why should there be only roses in this world?
The Mystique of Enlightenment (1982)
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.
No Way Out (2002)
I have assumed that the goal, enlightenment, exists.
Mind is a Myth (1987)
Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.
Thought is Your Enemy (1990)
I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.
No Way Out (2002)
It is very difficult to understand that all that you are doing is the impediment, is the one thing that is disturbing the harmony, the peace that is already there.
The Courage to Stand Alone (2001)
We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.
No Way Out (2002)
I have been a damn fool all my life, searching for something which does not exist. My search is at an end.
Mind is a Myth (1987)
Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.
Mind is a Myth (1987)