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

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.

Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not.

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

Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being the response to the accumulated memories in the brain cells? Perhaps many of you have not even asked such a question before, or if you have you may have said, "it's of very little importance- what is important is emotion." But I don't see how you can separate the two. If thought does not give continuity to feeling, feeling dies very quickly. So why in our daily lives, in our grinding, boring, frightened lives, has thought taken on such inordinate importance?