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- Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.
- Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is…
- You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining,…
- It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or…
- Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole…
- To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.
- As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life…
- It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control,…
- A mind that practices love cannot love.
- Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
- Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be…
- In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a…
- Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.
- Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?
- When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
- Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.
- Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.
- To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.
- We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.
- The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.
- Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It…
- Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.
- We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or…
- The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.
- Most people like to live in illusions.
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