The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world, and our problems are the world's problems.

My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

When I said that I am the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority or inferiority. I added that phrase 'and more' very carefully, because I knew that people had a very limited understanding of the Buddha and the Christ, and hence if I said: 'I am the Christ, the Buddha', they would limit that Reality to their own conceptions of the Buddha or the Christ, and Life has no limit.

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

The flowering of love is meditation.

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

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