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

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so clever, because they are so superficial - which means to be on the surface, and love is not a thing that exists on the surface.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in which there is no worry, no problem, no self.