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Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your despairs, your sorrows. Take a journey into that, that is all you have.

It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.

The significance of life is living.

The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world, and our problems are the world's problems.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.