And as we are—the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war.
Attention is not concentration.
From childhood we are trained to have problems.
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Psychological knowledge has made us dull.
Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with
The man who does not know thinks that he is great, that he has done this or that great thing; the wise man knows that only God is great, that all good work is done by God alone.
The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.
Three sins there are which work more harm than all else in the world—gossip, cruelty, and superstition—because they are sins against love.
Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort to ascend to it.
Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear.
We are a strange mixture of hate, fear, and gentleness; we are both violence and peace.
What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man.
When you love, you are very near truth.
Who but yourself can tell you if you are beautiful or ugly within?