Education for Life Quotes

“Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one’s own.”
― Swami Kriyananda, Education for Life: Preparing Children to Meet Today's Challenges

“Success is achieving what one really wants.”
― Swami Kriyananda, Education for Life: Preparing Children to Meet Today's Challenges

“A human being, in order to function fully and effectively in this world, needs to develop in himself all four of these tools of maturity: 1) physical energy and bodily self-control; 2) emotional calmness and expansive feeling; 3) dynamic, persistent will power; and 4) a clear-sighted, practical intellect. Remove any one of these aspects from the equation and the equation itself becomes distorted. Each aspect depends for its perfection on the other three....These tools are best developed in sequence: bodily awareness first, then sensitivity of feeling, then will power, and last of all, intellect.”
― Swami Kriyananda, Education for Life: Preparing Children to Meet Today's Challenges

“Society cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish.”
― Swami Kriyananda, Education for Life: Preparing Children to Meet Today's Challenges

“The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.”
― Swami Kriyananda, Education for Life: Preparing Children to Meet Today's Challenges

“The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.”
― Swami Kriyananda, Education for Life: Preparing Children to Meet Today's Challenges