Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.
It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.