If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.
Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.
From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.
Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.
There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
All tradition is merely the past.
The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.
Each breath is transforming me into thine image.
To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one’s own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.
I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.
When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
Is it possible to observe without the observer?
And as we are – the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.
Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.
Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?
True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.
Analysis does not transform consciousness.
When the mind goes beyond the thought of ‘the me,’ the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.