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

We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that they will fit into the pattern of society, That is what every parent wants, is it not? And that is exactly what is happening, whether it be in America or in Europe, in Russia or in India. The pattern may vary slightly, but they all want the child to conform.

Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

Intuition is the only true guide in life.

When you are free, you have no choice.

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