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Most of us waste this extraordinary thing called life. We have lived forty or sixty years, have gone to the office, engaged ourselves in social activi...more

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Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby dece...more

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Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

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If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we...more

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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

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One was watching the other day a red-tailed hawk, high in the heavens, circling effortlessly, without a beat of the wing, just for the fun of flying, ...more

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To be free, you have to examine authority, the whole skeleton of authority, tearing to pieces the whole dirty thing. And that requires energy, actual ...more

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There is no method of self-knowledge. Seeking a method invariably implies the desire to attain some result – and that is what we all want. We follow a...more

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There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be cr...more

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Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of ...more

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We are so sluggish in our mentality that we think the world's problems are not our business, that they have to be resolved by the United Nations or by...more