After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness.

There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all