When we stop learning in our relationship, whether we are studying, playing or whatever we are doing, and merely act from the knowledge we have accumulated, then disorder comes.

The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love.

A mind that practices love cannot love.