Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

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