The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.
There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.
The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the contrary, there is creation when the intellect is silent.
As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.
As long as you are held within a pattern you must create disorder in the world.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.
Nothing can disturb the calm peace of my soul.
Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one’s whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all.
Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is to love without separation, without distance, without time, without fear.
After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?
Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.
Is not virtue a negation of becoming?
If I condemn something, I do not understand it.
Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.
Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.
That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.