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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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It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

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You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.

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You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not u...more

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It is only in alert silence that truth can be.

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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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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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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.

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We need a tremendous amount of energy and we dissipate it through fear but when there is this energy which comes from throwing off every form of fear,...more

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But there's a sacredness which is not of thought, nor of a feeling resuscitated by thought. It is not recognizable by thought nor can it be utilized b...more

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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

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We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and th...more