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

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

Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?

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.

Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.