It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.

That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation.

When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.

We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.

Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

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