To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the persecuted in other countries.
You say: “He lost his life” or “my life”, as if life were something that you can possess or lose. The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.
Flood your mind with love. Look into the eyes of the other and embrace the person with whom you have quarrelled. Words are not necessary. Both will have their eyes flooded, and the joy of tears will wash away all quarrels.
