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

When you are free, you have no choice.

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.