Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

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

How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice.

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

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

The ambitious man has never found his true vocation.

Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.