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- As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude…
- In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes…
- Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of…
- Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this…
- Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. But it is…
- Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
- You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them…
- To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to…
- This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.…
- And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to…
- In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming,…
- From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of…
- So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to escape from the…
- Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear?…
- There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is…
- Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free who can look and understand immediately.…
- Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.
- I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and…
- When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
- Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.
- Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.
- The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be…
- Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas…
- The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive…
- To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the…
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