Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.

Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding.

Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind

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

You are Christians; find out what is true and false in Christianity - and you will then find out what is true. Find out what is true and false in your environment with all its oppressions and cruelties, and then you will find out what is true. Why do you want philosophies?

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.