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Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.
Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?
If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment.
Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.
When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.
The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.
If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.
Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man.
When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?
Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.
When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.
Activity that perishes, that is not productive of the eternal, of the lasting, is of very little use.
Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?
Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.
If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.
After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.
Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.
Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.
We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.
To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.
What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.
Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?
Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is... Matter and energy are interrelated.
Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.
[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.
We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.
The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.
Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.
You cannot explain to someone who comes with no idea of what you are talking about without being misunderstood.
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.
Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.
Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.
Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?