Study The Assumptions Behind Your Actions. Then

To Be Obsessed By The Idea Of Freedom, For Instance, Is Itself A Form Of Slavery. Such People Are In The Chains Of The Hope Of Freedom, And Are Therefore Able To Do Little Else Than Struggle With Them.

The Colour Of The Water Seems To Be The Colour Of The Glass Into Which It Has Been Poured'.

When Prayer, Rituals And Ascetic Life Are Just A Means Of Self-indulgence, They Are Harmful Rather Than Beneficial. This Is Quite Obvious To People Nowadays, When It Is Widely Recognised That Fixations Are Not The Same As Valuable And Laudable Observances. One Should Not Pray If That Prayer Is Vanity; Rituals Are Wrong When They Provide Lower Satisfactions, Like Emotional Stimulus Instead Of Enlightenment; He Or She Should Not Be An Ascetic Who Is Only Enjoying It.

When The Lion Had Eaten Its Fill, And The Jackals Had Taken Their Share, The Ants Came Along And Finished Up The Meat From The Bones Of The Haughty Stag.

Man (and Woman) Has An Infinite Capacity For Self-development. Equally, He Has An Infinite Capacity For Self-destruction. A Human Being May Be Clinically Alive And Yet, Despite All Appearances, Spiritually Dead.