The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness.

The Hindu, the Oriental, says that the physical is but the shadow of the Eternal, of the Truth; and he says 'In order to understand the Truth, I must let the shadow go, and not concern myself with it, but with the understanding of the Eternal.' So he does not concern himself with the physical. He is more concerned with the quality of mind and heart. Hence there is disease, there is disorder, and there is chaos and neglect and the gradual running down of the physical.