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

The individual problem is the world problem. Therefore let us return to the problem of individual perfection and the establishing of peace in the heart and in the mind of the individual.

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

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

It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.

Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state of the religious mind can be understood only when we begin to understand what beauty is; and the understanding of beauty must be approached through total aloneness.