If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life – perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious divisions, and establish a global relationship – psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the outer – we shall go on with wars.
Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.
It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.
Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind.
Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking.
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.
But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through the cement, and the hills covered, hidden, by the clouds.
Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in which there is no worry, no problem, no self.