Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness.

Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.

I would teach my child to respect what is right - the word right is a difficult word to use - I would teach him to respect the intrinsic value of things. Do you see what I mean? The true proportion of things.

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

I think one has to understand, not as a theory, not as a speculative, entertaining concept, but rather as an actual fact - that we are the world and the world is us. The world is each one of us; to feel that, to be really committed to it and to nothing else, brings about a feeling of great responsibility and an action that must not be fragmentary, but whole.