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Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a revolt.
When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following.
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.
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 midst of it.
Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.
Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.
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 out of any jar.
If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.
War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.
You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.
Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.
Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die
You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.
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 "being free."
...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.
If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.
Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.
Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office.
That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.
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 worth that pebble on the path.
Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.
Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.
The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.
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.
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.
To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.
Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.
You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
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, through discipline.
Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?
Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
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 love, all fear is consumed.
Conflict is not in the feeling of being in love. The feeling of being in love is utterly without conflict. There is no loss of energy in being in love.
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?
Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.
If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.