To be religious is to be sensitive to reality.
We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment.
You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.
Doesn’t becoming imply time?
But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.
Can you look at a flower without thinking?
Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.
Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?
Can’t you fall in love and not have a possessive relationship? I love someone and she loves me and we get married – that is all perfectly straightforward and simple, in that there is no conflict at all.
Isn’t the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.
Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?
We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?
In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.
Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.
Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern.
To change the world, we must begin with ourselves.
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?