Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals in the superficial sense of being very clever, full of words and theories about what is right and what is wrong, about how we should think, what we should do. Mentally we are highly developed, but inwardly there is very little substance or significance; and it is this inward substance that brings about true action, which is not action according to an idea.

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.