August 29, 2026
In order to look within, the mind has to be completely calm. Otherwise one cannot become aware of his thoughts at all, and there will be no development, like a mad man who runs about doing this, doing that, a hundred things, and ends up in a mental home! (Some of the most brilliant people go there!)
This does not mean that we should be idle, lazy. Whether it is social, political, economic, educational, national, international or universal, I am contributing to this development. As I am the architect of this development, I must first discover myself. In this discovery is self-development or spiritual development.
In order to bring about this discovery I must have patience. There is no rushing at all in this. You cannot rush a six-year-old boy into being a forty-six year old man. Yet, on the other hand, you cannot leave him to sleep himself into that stage - “either - or” - either we rush or we go to sleep. Neither of these is true.