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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

Our mind is greedy. It is always after some gain, some profit, some achievement. It goes on asking: ‘What will I gain if I go to the ocean? What will I achieve if I seek samadhi or nirvana or emptiness?’ We always ask what we are going to achieve, and we never ask – which is what one should ask – ‘How did we lose ourselves in this rat race for gains and achievements?’ On the face of it, we have achieved every thing: we have achieved wealth, power, prestige, everything. And in this very pursuit we have lost ourselves: we have completely lost ourselves. We have now everything – except ourselves.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.