I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.
Is it possible to observe without the observer?
And as we are – the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.
Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.
Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?
True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.
Analysis does not transform consciousness.
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
When the mind goes beyond the thought of ‘the me,’ the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.
Is there a thinker apart from thought?
Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
You yourself are the Teacher, and the Pupil, you’re the Master, you’re the Guru, you are the Leader, you are Everything! And, to understand, is to transform what Is.
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.
The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.