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.

Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.

To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.

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

It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying. You are always a guest on this earth and have the austerity of a guest. Austerity is far deeper than owning only a few things. The very word austerity has been spoilt by the monks, by the sannyasis, by the hermits. Sitting on that high hill alone in the solitude of many things, many rocks and little animals and ants, that word has no meaning.