Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life don't accept a thing, but inquire, investigate. Then you will find that your mind is something really extraordinary, it has no end, and to such a mind there is no death.

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

The enemy is not the other, the enemy is you

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.