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- Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person,…
- The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying.…
- 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…
- 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…
- If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is…
- Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.
- 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?…
- Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being the response to…
- 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,…
- 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…
- The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.
- It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of…
- Learning is the very essence of humility . . .
- 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…
- In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals…
- And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter into a dimension…
- It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is…
- If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.
- There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.
- Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.
- Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.
- The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?
- Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?
- The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.
- How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of…
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