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

I say that when you have perceived or attained the goal, compromises, renunciations, do not exist. If you have seen the goal, compromise ceases to exist. It is then a question of a different attitude.

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

That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.

If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating process;then death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate, not the people who believe or who want to find out what happens after death.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that they will fit into the pattern of society, That is what every parent wants, is it not? And that is exactly what is happening, whether it be in America or in Europe, in Russia or in India. The pattern may vary slightly, but they all want the child to conform.