To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

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.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house."

We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that they will fit into the pattern of society, That is what every parent wants, is it not? And that is exactly what is happening, whether it be in America or in Europe, in Russia or in India. The pattern may vary slightly, but they all want the child to conform.

You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?