But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.

The ambitious man has never found his true vocation.

Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In our relationships each of us builds an image about the other, and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves.

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.