All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

You are the world and the world is you.

Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals at all. We are the result of thousands of years of human experience, human endeavor and struggle.

Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end.

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.