Isn’t the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.
Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?
We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?
In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.
Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.
Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern.
To change the world, we must begin with ourselves.
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?
In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.
Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
A mind that practices love cannot love.
It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.
Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.
Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.
Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so clever, because they are so superficial – which means to be on the surface, and love is not a thing that exists on the surface.
I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.