I don't mind what happens.

The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

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

We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.