I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention.

Freedom of life does not mean disorder of life, does not mean chaos, and just everyone doing anything he wants. That is not the freedom of life. The tree, when you give it a chance, protect it when it is young, will grow straight, because it has developed its own resistance; but the moment you make it delicate, then it gets crooked.

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

Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.

You cannot lay down a standard which all must follow.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.