Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.

You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content; and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician.