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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

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You must be a light unto yourself.

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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you eit...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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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for ...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 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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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

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Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say to somebody "I love you", when you are c...more