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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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If I am all the time measuring myself against you, struggling to be like you, then I am denying what I am myself. Therefore I am creating an illusion....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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

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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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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