“A person s integrity develops early in life. Once formed, it is difficult to alter, change, or improve.”
“Learning voyage, the greatest adventure.”
“To be free, you have to examine authority, the whole skeleton of authority, tearing to pieces the whole dirty thing. And that requires energy, actual physical energy, and also it demands psychological energy. By the energy is destroyed, is wasted when one is in conflict. So when there is the understanding of the whole process of conflict, there is the ending of conflict, there is abundance of energy. Then you can proceed tearing the house that you have built throughout the centuries and that has no meaning at all. You know, to destroy is to create. We must destroy, not the buildings, not the social or economic system, - this comes about daily – but the psychological, the unconscious and the rationally, individually, deeply and superficially. We must tear through all that to be utterly defenseless, because you must be defenseless to love and have affection. Then you see and understand ambition, authority, and you begin to see when authority is necessary and at what level. Then there is no authority of learning, no authority of knowledge, no authority of capacity; no authority that function assumes and which becomes status. To understand all authority – of the gurus, of the Masters, and others – requires a very sharp mind, a clear brain, not a muddy brain, not a dull brain.”
“Nobody was born a master; amateurs become experts because they did not give up on learning. You are going as far as you can if you’ll learn and apply!”
“You are never defeated in life, you are only a learner.”
“I ve learned far too much to know everything.”
“Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches.”
“Learning, learned people knew, was a multilingual enterprise [ Absolute English, Aeon, February 4, 2015].”
“Instead of saying they rose all the way to the top, we should say they learned all the way to the top.”
“Every single important thing we do is something we didn t use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.”
“What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?”
“Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce in redirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do.”
“At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.”
“In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.”
“You become a master in what you repeatedly do in consistency. Mastery is not born; it is acquired. It is not blood-linked; it is skill-learnt!”
“How could tickling, even though it causes laughter, be at the same time such a vicious form of torture? Sitting on the edge of my bed, I thought it through. I came to the conclusion, at last, that it was like this: Tickling and learning were much the same thing. When you tickle yourself—ecstasy; but when anyone else tickles you—agony.”
“My goal has always been to inspire in them an ongoing love of learning. To awaken a feeling where their work is their passion, so that they never feel burdened or trapped by meeting their material needs, but instead thrive and experience wealth doing what they love while making a positive contribution to the world. To me that is the truest definition of success.”