Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather than love, why greed and not generosity, why self-centred activity and not open total action? Why be mean when there are soaring mountains and flashing streams? Why jealousy and not love? Why?

Wherever there is a suitable environment for the fulfilment of Life, it will fulfil itself.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that they will fit into the pattern of society, That is what every parent wants, is it not? And that is exactly what is happening, whether it be in America or in Europe, in Russia or in India. The pattern may vary slightly, but they all want the child to conform.

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.