Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.
You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.
Despair exists only when there is hope.
And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.
To follow implies not only the denying of one’s own clarity, investigation, integrity, and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is a reward.
The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?
Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.
We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.
In the denial of disorder there is order.
Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.
Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.
Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the ‘me’ is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.
Don’t we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?
Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?
It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.
It is only in alert silence that truth can be.
Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.
Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class – which again breeds isolation, loneliness.