If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?

Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It is only then that there can be bliss, that there can be creative action.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

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

Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

Intuition is the whisper of the soul.