All the lights of the world cannot be compared even to a ray of inner light of the Self.
Self-knowledge is not a thing to be bought in books, but it is awareness, from moment to moment.
Food to a large extent is what holds a society together and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.
The Self, having in dreams enjoyed the pleasures of sense, gone hither and thither, experienced good and evil, hastens back to the state of waking from which he started. As a man passes from dream to wakefulness, so does he pass from this life to the next.
To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the persecuted in other countries.
