If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems.

Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.

It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.

Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In our relationships each of us builds an image about the other, and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves.

To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.