We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.

Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.

You are the world and the world is you.

You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.

You know, in the case of most of us, the mind is noisy, everlastingly chattering to itself, soliloquizing or chattering about something, or trying to talk to itself, to convince itself of something; it is always moving, noisy.

You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.