I think there is a difference between the human being and the individual. The individual is a local entity, living in a particular country, belonging to a particular culture, particular society, particular religion. The human being is not a local entity. He is everywhere. If the individual merely acts in a particular corner of the vast field of life, then his action is totally unrelated to the whole. So one has to bear in mind that we are talking of the whole not the part, because in the greater the lesser is, but in the lesser the greater is not. The individual is the little conditioned, miserable, frustrated entity, satisfied with his little gods and his little traditions, whereas a human being is concerned with the total welfare, the total misery and total confusion of the world.

That is the first thing to learn-not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or real…

We human beings are what we have been for millions of years-colossally greedy, envious, aggressive, jealous, anxious and despairing, with occasional flashes of…

The world accepts and follows the traditional approach. The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another; we mechanical…

I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of …

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.