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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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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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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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space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that...more

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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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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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A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man.

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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 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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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