All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope when you look at the expressions of life.

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

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.

Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?