Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally.

So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.

When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.

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

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.