Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention.

Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.

It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression .

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.