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

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

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

To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.