Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious divisions, and establish a global relationship – psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the outer – we shall go on with wars.
Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.
It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.
Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind.
Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking.
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.
But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through the cement, and the hills covered, hidden, by the clouds.
Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?
Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in which there is no worry, no problem, no self.
To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?
Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.
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 you the world is transformed.
There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.
If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.
Truth is a pathless land.
Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts.