In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.
Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
A mind that practices love cannot love.
It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.
Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.
Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.
Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so clever, because they are so superficial – which means to be on the surface, and love is not a thing that exists on the surface.
I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.
Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.
Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.
You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In our relationships each of us builds an image about the other, and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves...
To be is to be related.
The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.
Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.
Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.
Most people like to live in illusions.
The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.