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In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.
Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with.
The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?
Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?
My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.
A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.
Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause?
It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.
Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?
That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation.
To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it.
Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.
It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.
The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?
Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.
The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
You cannot say that all experience is of equal value for all people.
Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.
Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.
Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.
The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.
Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.
In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.
The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.
Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?
And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.
Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.
Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.
The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.
Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.
Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people.
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.
The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.