It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don’t have to do a thing.
Love, and don’t be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.
Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.
Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?
No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
Can thought be silent?
To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.
The very word “sorrow” colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.
Psychological knowledge has made us dull.
When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.
Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?
Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?
To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.
Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?
To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it.
It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.
You are the world and the world is you.
Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?