You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.

Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.