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

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an object without an observer, because in the perception of meditation there is no object and therefore no experience. can, however, take place when the eyes are open and one is surrounded by objects of every kind. But then these objects have no importance at all. One sees them but there is no process of recognition, which means there is no experiencing.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.