Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?

If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals at all. We are the result of thousands of years of human experience, human endeavor and struggle.

To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.

The man-made laws have been made by men who have not perceived the final goal towards which they are making. And that is why it is so important to insist upon the final thing first, and then all the regulations, all the disciplines, will follow.

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.