Life is a movement, an enormous river with tremendous force, energy and drive, moving, moving, moving. And I, the ‘me’, the human being, is part of that movement. I, as a human being, have been conditioned – as a Hindu, Catholic, communist, etc. – and I respond to every movement of life according to this conditioning. My conditioning is so small, so petty, so narrow, so shallow, so stupid, and from that conditioning I respond. So my response will always be inadequate and therefore I will always have problems.
From Public Talk 3, Saanen, 14 July 1966