Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding.

My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?

Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing - being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing.

But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.