When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing in one's relationship with others in order not to be hurt more. In that there is fear and a gradual isolation. Now, we are asking: Is it possible not only to be free of past hurts but also never to be hurt again?

I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that person as a human being. I do not say "This is a man; this is a woman."

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.

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.