The significance of life is living.
There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is “being free.”
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between “what is” and “what should be”.
Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.
When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren’t you separating yourself?
Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.
Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding.
If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.
From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no obedience.
There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.
Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.
It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.
We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.
To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.
If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.
I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence.
A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.
Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.