Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.

Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.

By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we ourselves have ceased to question.

While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally.

Fear is nonacceptance of what is.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.