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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
Truth is more in the process than in the result.
You are the world and the world is you.
Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
Can you look at a flower without thinking?
Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.
Is there a thinker apart from thought?
Meditation is the action of silence.
Happy is the man who is nothing.
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
The world is me and I am the world.
You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.
The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
Freedom is now or never.
I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.
As we are – the world is.
Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts.
Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known.
Truth is a pathless land.
Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all…
When you are free, you have no choice.
There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking.
Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
It is only in alert silence that truth can be.
The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.
The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.
To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.
Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.
Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
To be religious is to be sensitive to reality.
Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.
Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.
Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.
To change the world, we must begin with ourselves.
Only the free mind knows what Love is.
Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.
Nothing can disturb the calm peace of my soul.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.
To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.
The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
The enemy is not the other, the enemy is you.
As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.
Freedom from something is not freedom.
To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it
Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.
What you believe you experience.
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.
The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?
This is what I am, and I am going to understand this.
The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
Can thought be silent?
Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.
All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
So through identification you have pleasure and pain.
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.
Learning implies a mind that doesn’t know.
Isn’t the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.
Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.
And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.
You must be a light unto yourself.
Most people like to live in illusions.
The thought is not the thing.
Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.
The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.
There is no tranquility in ideas.
Till the false is seen as false, truth is not.
Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.
Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.
Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with.
It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.
Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.
In the denial of disorder there is order.
The significance of life is living.
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.
You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.
To be is to be related.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
The flowering of love is meditation.
To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.
Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.
Those who play a safe game die very safely.
Where there is fear there is aggression.
Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.
There is no complexity in what is, but only in the many escapes that we seek.
That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation.
Despair exists only when there is hope.
It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.
Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?
It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.
If I condemn something, I do not understand it.
Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?
Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.
Is it possible to observe without the observer?
Analysis does not transform consciousness.
Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.
To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.
Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause?
After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?
We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.
Hasn’t knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?
To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.
To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.
Each breath is transforming me into thine image.
Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.
Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?
The very word “sorrow” colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.
The observer is the observed and therein lies sanity, the whole, and with the holy is love.
When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.
Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.
Is not virtue a negation of becoming?
Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.
When there is smoke, how can there be a pure flame?
Psychological knowledge has made us dull.
Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?
A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.
Truth does not belong to an individual.
As long as you are held within a pattern you must create disorder in the world.
Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?
Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders.
Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.
Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?
Be a light unto oneself.
With so much poverty and degradation, one must have a very thick skin to be rich. Some.
A mind that practices love cannot love.
There’s a great and unutterable beauty in all this.
Love may be the ultimate solution to all man’s difficulties, problems and travails.
Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.
The mind is not a plaything of the brain, whose function is mechanical.
Beware of the man who offers you a reward in this world or in the next.
The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.
All tradition is merely the past.
Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.
Are we ever alone? Or are we carrying with us all the burdens of yesterday?