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- Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing…
- Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.
- 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.…
- Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering,…
- 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…
- If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations,…
- Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being the response to…
- 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…
- 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.
- Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem…
- Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of…
- To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.
- You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are not free to…
- There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all
- Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty…
- Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.
- Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink…
- You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.
- Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the…
- Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an…
- The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.
- I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that…
- Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be…
- To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty , but it also implies that your motive in following,…
- The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.
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