There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one’s whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all.
Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is to love without separation, without distance, without time, without fear.
After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?
Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.
Is not virtue a negation of becoming?
If I condemn something, I do not understand it.
Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.
Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.
That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.
And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness.
To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.
The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.
So through identification you have pleasure and pain.
That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation.
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.
If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.
Truth does not belong to an individual.
The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.
Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no ’me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.