Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.

Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace.

Doesn't becoming imply time?

The description is not the described.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?