In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.
Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.
The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place.
We never see anything completely. We never see a tree, we see the tree through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree.
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.
The significance of life is living.
There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is “being free.”
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between “what is” and “what should be”.
Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.
When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren’t you separating yourself?
Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.
Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding.
If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.
From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.