War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love.

A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.

Freedom is now or never.

Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.

National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a revolt.