Most people like to live in illusions.

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware - aware of your speech, aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.

Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.

Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.