Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.

I think that the reason to live is to learn. We come here to experience through the body things that the spirit could not experience otherwise. So we need this body, and we have to transform this body into a temple of learning. (1997)

Live and learn and pass it on.

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.

Live to learn and you will really learn to live.

Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.

The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.

Real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human. Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life. There is within each of us a deep hunger for this type of learning.

We learn by doing.

We are meant to be learning at every stage of life. Think about life as a series of classrooms or ashrams in which we learn various lessons.

I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

The whole point of being alive is to become the person you were intended to be, to grow out of and into yourself again and again

Or perhaps one can learn only by one’s own mistakes. The essential thing is to learn. Learning and living.