If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity. If there's no relationship with nature then you become a killer; then you kill baby seals, whales, dolphins, and man either for gain, for "sport," for food, or for knowledge. Then nature is frightened of you, withdrawing its beauty. You may take long walks in the woods or camp in lovely places but you are a killer and so lose their friendship. You probably are not related to anything to your wife or your husband.

I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

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.