And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering.
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
Relationship is the mirror in which we see ourselves as we are. All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.
Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower – natural, open, spontaneous.
You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.
Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.
It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.
As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.
If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud – you are all that, and that is love.
The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.
There is no tranquility in ideas.
There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.
The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the contrary, there is creation when the intellect is silent.
As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.
As long as you are held within a pattern you must create disorder in the world.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.
Nothing can disturb the calm peace of my soul.
Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.