And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness.
To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.
The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.
So through identification you have pleasure and pain.
That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation.
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.
If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.
Truth does not belong to an individual.
The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.
Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no ’me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.
To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.
Till the false is seen as false, truth is not.
To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.
If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.
Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.
A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.
Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.
The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be found from moment to moment, in the smile, in the tear, under the dead leaf, in the vagrant thought, in the fullness of love.