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

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness There is a poem, there is a song. Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring. When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with The music of many leaves, Which in due season fall and are blown away. And this is the way of life.

It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.

Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately.

I should say that all compromise is a "stepping down" of the Truth, is trying to reduce something which cannot be reduced, and that for anyone who has understood life these compromises are impossible.

We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.