Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.

To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality.

Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.