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- Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for…
- Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one.
- The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and…
- Wakefulness is the only saintliness there is, and sleepiness, unconsciousness, is the only sin there is; all other sins are born out of it. Cut…
- Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in…
- When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the…
- You may have decided again and again, and again and again you have failed - not because smoking is such a great phenomenon that you…
- Mind is politics, because mind is ambitious and ambition is the root of politics. If you are ambitious you are political. Your ambition may take…
- If you have desires, try to look - are those desires the cause of your misery? Nobody wants misery, but nobody is willing to drop…
- There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.
- Spiritual seeking means knowing this negative part: that desiring is the root cause of frustration. To desire is to create, of one`s own accord, a…
- Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And then finally hope turns sour,…
- A boyfriend or a girlfriend may be fun, but cannot become a door to the deepest that is hidden in each and everyone. With a…
- Belief is like plastic flowers, which look like flowers from far away. Trust is real rose. It has roots, and roots go deep into your…
- When you open up to the ultimate, immediately it pours into you. You are no longer an ordinary human being - you have transcended. Your…
- The word relationship is beautiful. The original meaning of the root from which the word to relate comes is exactly the same as to respond.…
- Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.
- Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming…
- Zorba is beautiful, but something is missing. The earth is his, but the heaven is missing. He is earthly, rooted, like a giant cedar, but…
- Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new…
- Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation…
- And the miracle is: if you can go into your suffering as a meditation, watching, to the deepest roots of it, just through watching, it…
- Repentance can become a very, very deep phenomenon in you if you understand the responsibility. Then even a small thing, if it becomes a repentance--…
- With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you -…
- No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being -- because ideological orientation itself is the…
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- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. — Teresa of Avila
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we… — Michelle Bachelet
- When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this… — Lester Bangs
- The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. — Francis Bacon
- Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. — James A. Baldwin
- Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times… — Ansel Adams
- Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper… — Evan Bayh
- What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to… — Mortimer Adler