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

You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.

[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.

After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.

Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain

Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails.