Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.

As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

There is no tranquility in ideas.

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?