It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression .

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

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.