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?

It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.

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

Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go after it. If I go after it I am going after something which is the known, projected by me; by my own mind.

Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. To completely empty the whole content of the mind — that is real freedom.

Freedom is now or never.