It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true.

The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.

A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.