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Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.
After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.
It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.
Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.
The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.
Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.
It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.
All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.
Adhere to the Truth rather than to the personality, and take to heart the Truth rather than the authority of another.
Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.
Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.
Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.
Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.
We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.
A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.
I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.
If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.
There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all
From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.
When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.
You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.
When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.
It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.
While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.
Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.
What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.
Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.