Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.

It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or agreement which causes us to work together, but an extraordinary feeling of togetherness, the sense of joy in being and doing together without any thought of reward or punishment.

Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?

Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.