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It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live - not in the cultivation of a virtue, which merely brings about respectability, not unde...more

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To find out if there is actually such freedom one must be aware of one's own conditioning, of the problems, of the monotonous shallowness, emptiness, ...more

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The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bri...more

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Sirs, if you are listening and are not acting, it is like a man who is always tilling but never sowing. It is better not to listen to a truth than to ...more

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So if you understand that where there is a search for pleasure there must be pain, live that way if you want to, but don't just slip into it. If you w...more

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Discipline must be without control, without suppression, without any form of fear...It is not discipline first and then freedom; freedom is at the ver...more

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Seeing everything that goes on in your daily life, your daily activities - when you pick up a pen, when you talk, when you go out for a drive or when ...more

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virtue can flower only when there is freedom.

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space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that...more

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any movement which is worth while, any action which has any deep significance, must begin with each one of us. I must change first; I must see what is...more

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So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimm...more

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To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are living things, always moving, flowing, never rest...more

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A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man.

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In order to observe the movement of your own mind and heart, of your whole being, you must have a free mind, not a mind that agrees and disagrees, tak...more

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It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.