Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.

We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it.

But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.

You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

And it is impossible to treat human beings as human beings if you label them, if you term them, if you give them a name as Hindus, Russians, or what you will. It is so much easier to label people, for then you can pass by and kick them, drop a bomb on India or Japan.