If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.

Most people like to live in illusions.

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

To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality.

You are Christians; find out what is true and false in Christianity - and you will then find out what is true. Find out what is true and false in your environment with all its oppressions and cruelties, and then you will find out what is true. Why do you want philosophies?

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