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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

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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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Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

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When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally...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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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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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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we do not ask. We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is that we all want to be told because we are the res...more

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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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Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the wood...more

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Love is something totally new every day, but pleasure is not, pleasure has continuity. Love is always new, and therefore it is its own eternity.