There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.

Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a good job, but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid?

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

To keep always in the same place means to stagnate.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved. That happens when the mind is still, in the interval between two thoughts, between two responses. In that state of mind, understanding comes.