Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.

Those who play a safe game die very safely.

It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

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

It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and therefore to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees - everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now and we will have no wars.

You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.