What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Is there a thinker apart from thought?
Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
You yourself are the Teacher, and the Pupil, you’re the Master, you’re the Guru, you are the Leader, you are Everything! And, to understand, is to transform what Is.
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.
The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.
In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.
Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.
The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place.
We never see anything completely. We never see a tree, we see the tree through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree.
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.