Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being the response to the accumulated memories in the brain cells? Perhaps many of you have not even asked such a question before, or if you have you may have said, "it's of very little importance- what is important is emotion." But I don't see how you can separate the two. If thought does not give continuity to feeling, feeling dies very quickly. So why in our daily lives, in our grinding, boring, frightened lives, has thought taken on such inordinate importance?

War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.

But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts

National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a revolt.