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

If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating process;then death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate, not the people who believe or who want to find out what happens after death.

Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die

Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through the cement, and the hills covered, hidden, by the clouds.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.