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.

The observer is the observed.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

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.

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.

If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.

But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.