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.

Whatever discipline you exercise should be based on the goal your child is eventually to reach, namely, freedom and happiness. I would show him towards what he is growing, his ultimate fulfilment, and help him to adapt himself to that. In everything that you do, you should keep the goal in view, and hence your discipline must aim at helping the child to realize that at a certain stage he will be above all discipline.

Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.

To keep always in the same place means to stagnate.

Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

The significance of life is living.