What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.
The significance of life is living.
If you have the desire, if you establish the goal - which is harmony, which is happiness through liberation- then these stages of revolt, of war, of struggle, can be avoided - should be avoided. You are not going to wallow in the gutter if you can jump over it.
Intelligence is the seeing of what is.
One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears.