As you are externally aware, so also you can be inwardly aware of your thoughts and feelings, of your motives and urges, of your prejudices, envies, greed and pride…This outward and inward awareness is a unitary process which brings about a total integration of human understanding.
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is. The guru can give you words; he can give you an explanation, the symbols of the mind, but the symbol is not the real, and if you are caught in the symbol, you will never find the way.
Self-knowledge is not a thing to be bought in books, but it is awareness, from moment to moment.
Corruption inside is most dangerous, so don’t be corrupt. Begin here first, not out there.
You are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself.
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, which has so unfortunately divided man.
