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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.

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Education In The True

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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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.

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As The World Has To Attain The Fulfilment Of Eternal Life, To Me It Does Not In The Least Matter What I Am Called -'enlightened One', 'son Of God', Or Something Else. To Me, It Has No Purpose - As Little As When The Buddha Said, 'i Am The Enlightened One'.

What Brings Understanding Is Love. When Your Heart Is Full, Then You Will Listen To The Teacher, To The Beggar, To The Laughter Of Children, To The Rainbow, And To The Sorrow Of Man. Under Every Stone And Leaf, That Which Is Eternal Exists.

You May Be Perfect In Playing The Piano, And Not Be Creative; You May Play The Piano Most Brilliantly, And Not Be A Musician. You May Be Able To Handle Color, To Put Paint On Canvas Most Cleverly, And Not Be A Creative Painter. You May Create A Face, An Image Out Of A Stone, Because You Have Learned The Technique, And Not Be A Master Creator. Creation Comes First, Not Technique.

To Know Yourself You Need Not Go To Any Book, To Any Priest, To Any Psychologist. The Whole Treasure Is Within Yourself.

Now, When You Are Aware, You See The Whole Process Of Your Thinking And Action, But It Can Happen Only When There Is No Condemnation. That Is. When I Condemn Something, I Do Not Understand It.

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When I Analyse Myself And My Reactions Or Behaviour, There Is The Act And The Actor. There Is A Division Between The Two And That Creates Conflict Between "what Is" And "what Should Be".

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.

Nothing Can Disturb The Calm Peace Of My Soul.

You Cannot Say That All Experience Is Of Equal Value For All People.

Perception Without The Perceiver In Meditation Is To Commune With The Height And Depth Of The Immense. This Perception Is Entirely Different From Seeing An Object Without An Observer, Because In The Perception Of Meditation There Is No Object And Therefore No Experience. Can, However, Take Place When The Eyes Are Open And One Is Surrounded By Objects Of Every Kind. But Then These Objects Have No Importance At All. One Sees Them But There Is No Process Of Recognition, Which Means There Is No Experiencing.

You Would Never Hear Any Song Played Twice In The Same Way. The Words Were Retained, But Within A Certain Frame There Was Great Latitude, And The Musician Could Improvise To His Heart's Content; And The More The Variations And Combinations, The Greater The Musician.

We Should Awaken Feelings Of Respect For Each Other. In Other Words, Awaken The Desire To Kill Selfishness.

Can You Look At A Flower Without Thinking?

The Ending Is The Beginning, And The Beginning Is The First Step, And The First Step Is The Only Step.

Real Freedom Is Not Something To Be Acquired, It Is The Outcome Of Intelligence.

But Inwardly We Are As Corrupt As The Person Who Sits In An Office And Plans War-because, We Want To Be Somebody In The Family, In A Group, In Society, In The Nation.

How Can One Be Compassionate If You Belong To Any Religion, Follow Any Guru, Believe In Something, Believe In Your Scriptures, And So On, Attached To A Conclusion? When You Accept Your Guru, You Have Come To A Conclusion, Or When You Strongly Believe In God Or In A Saviour, This Or That, Can There Be Compassion? You May Do Social Work, Help The Poor Out Of Pity, Out Of Sympathy, Out Of Charity, But Is All That Love And Compassion?

There Is Not First Understanding And Then Action. When You Understand, That Very Understanding Is Action.

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There Is No End To Education. It Is Not That You Read A Book, Pass An Examination, And Finish With Education. The Whole Of Life, From The Moment You Are Born To The Moment You Die, Is A Process Of Learning.

Human Beings, Each One, Right Through The World, Go Through Great Agonies, The More Sensitive, The More Alert, The More Observant, The Greater The Suffering, The Anxiety, The Extraordinary Sense Of Insoluble Problems.

What Is The Difference Between Attention And Inattention? What Is Attention And What Is Concentration? ...attention Has No Centre.

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Joy Is Something Entirely Different From Pleasure.

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Buddha Called Himself 'the Enlightened One' And Jesus Called Himself 'the Son Of God'. To Me The Term 'world-teacher' Is Of As Little Importance As 'the Son Of God' Or 'the Enlightened One'.

There Is No End To Relationship. There May Be The End Of A Particular Relationship, But Relationship Can Never End; To Be Is To Be Related.

Put Away The Book, The Description, The Tradition, The Authority, And Take The Journey Of Self-discovery. Love, And Don't Be Caught In Opinions And Ideas About What Love Is Or Should Be. When You Love, Everything Will Come Right. Love Has Its Own Action.

I Can Only Insist That Understanding, Not Blind Belief, Should Be The Goal.

You Cannot Ask Which System Is The Better Because You Cannot Standardize One System For The Whole Of The World. You Cannot Have One Stereotyped Code Of Morality For Every Country. One System May Work Very Well In One Country And Very Badly In Another. You Cannot Grow A Tropical Flower In A Cold Climate.

Goodness, Generosity, Or Love Does Not Come Into Being Save Through The Search For Reality.

Where There Is Love, There Is Revolution, Because Love Is Transformation From Moment To Moment.

You Must Understand The Whole Of Life, Not Just One Little Part Of It. That Is Why You Must Read, That Is Why You Must Look At The Skies, That Is Why You Must Sing And Dance, And Write Poems And Suffer And Understand, For All That Is Life.

A Conditioned Mind May Be Inventive; It May Think Up New Ideas, New Phrases, New Gadgets; It May Build A Dam, Plan A New Society, And All The Rest Of It; But That Is Not Creativity. Creativity Is Something Much More Than The Mere Capacity To Acquire A Technique. It Is Because This Extraordinary Thing Called Creativity Is Not In Most Of Us That We Are So Shallow, Empty, Insufficient. And Only The Mind That Is Free Can Be Creative.

It Is Very Easy To Conform To What Your Society Or Your Parents And Teachers Tell You. That Is A Safe And Easy Way Of Existing; But That Is Not Living...to Live Is To Find Out For Yourself What Is True.

There Is No Tranquility In Ideas.

Freedom From The Desire For An Answer Is Essential To The Understanding Of A Problem.

Instead Of Old Spiritual Distinctions You Have New Spiritual Distinctions, Instead Of Old Worships You Have New Worships. You Are All Depending For Your Spirituality On Someone Else, For Your Happiness On Someone Else, For Your Enlightenment On Someone Else.

The First Thing To Realize In Meditation Is That There Is No Authority, That The Mind Must Be Completely Free To Examine, To Observe, To Learn. And So There Is No Following, No Accepting, No Obedience.

If You Seem Something That Is True And Do Not Act Then You Are Wasting Your Life. And Life Is Too Precious. It Is All That We Have.

True Understanding Is Possible Only When We Are Fully Conscious Of Our Thought, Not As An Operative Observer On This Thought, But Completely And Without The Intervention Of A Choice.

Contentment Is Never The Outcome Of Fulfillment, Of Achievement, Or Of The Possession Of Things; It Is Not Born Of Action Or Inaction. It Comes With The Fullness Of What Is, Not In The Alteration Of It.

When One Loses The Deep Intimate Relationship With Nature, Then Temples, Mosques And Churches Become Important.

If You Have This Extraordinary Thing Going In Your Life, Then It Is Everything; Then You Become The Teacher, The Disciple, The Neighbour, The Beauty Of The Cloud - You Are All That, And That Is Love.

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Understanding Of The Self Only Arises In Relationship, In Watching Yourself In Relationship To People, Ideas, And Things; To Trees, The Earth, And The World Around You And Within You. Relationship Is The Mirror In Which The Self Is Revealed. Without Self-knowledge There Is No Basis For Right Thought And Action.

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Any Acceptance Of Authority Is The Very Denial Of Truth.

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Did You Ever Sit Quietly With Your Back Straight, Not Moving, Just Only Cherishing The Beauty Of Silence?

Can The Mind Become Completely Still Without Coercion, Without Compulsion, Without Discipline?

To Follow Implies Not Only The Denying Of One's Own Clarity, Investigation, Integrity And Honesty, But It Also Implies That Your Motive In Following Is Reward.

Meditation Is The Emptying Of The Mind Of All The Things That The Mind Has Put Together. If You Do That -perhaps You Won't, But It Doesn't Matter, Just Listen To This- You Will Find That There Is An Extraordinary Space In The Mind, And That Space Is Freedom. So You Must Demand Freedom At The Very Beginning, And Not Just Wait, Hoping To Have It At The End. You Must Seek Out The Significance Of Freedom In Your Work, In Your Relationships, In Everything That You Do. Then You Will Find That Meditation Is Creation.

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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.

If You Have No Love, Do What You Will - Go After All The Gods On Earth, Do All The Social Activities, Try To Reform The Poor, The Politics, Write Books, Write Poems - You Are A Dead Human Being. Without Love Your Problems Will Increase, Multiply Endlessly.

I Would Teach My Child To Respect What Is Right - The Word Right Is A Difficult Word To Use - I Would Teach Him To Respect The Intrinsic Value Of Things. Do You See What I Mean? The True Proportion Of Things.

One Is Never Afraid Of The Unknown; One Is Afraid Of The Known Coming To An End.

Religion, Politics, Society Are Exploiting You, And You Are Being Conditioned By Them; You Are Being Forced In A Particular Direction. You Are Not Human Beings; You Are Mere Cogs In A Machine.

I Have Only One Purpose: To Make People Free, To Urge Them Towards Freedom, To Help Them To Break Away From All Limitations, For That Alone Will Give Them Eternal Happiness, Will Give Them The Unconditional Realization Of Self.

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As Long As The Mind Is Seeking To Fill Itself, It Will Always Be Empty. When The Mind Is No Longer Concerned With Filling Its Own Emptiness, Then Only Does That Emptiness Cease To Be.

It Is Good To Have Organizations But Not To Exaggerate Their Importance Out Of Due Proportion.

The Mind Gives Meaning To Anything But The Meaning It Gives Is Meaningless.

There Are Laws In Some Countries, I Believe, Which Prohibit Anyone From Following You In The Street, And If Someone Does, He Can Be Arrested And Put Into Prison. So, Spiritually, I Wish There Were A Police System Which Would Put People Into A Spiritual Prison For Following Others. In Fact, It Does Happen Automatically.

Fear Is The Destructive Energy In Man. It Withers The Mind, It Distorts Thought, It Leads To All Kinds Of Extraordinarily Clever And Subtle Theories, Absurd Superstitions, Dogmas, And Beliefs.

After All, Conflict Arises, Does It Not, Through The Desire To Be Something, To Be Other Than What Is.

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You Must Look Most Intimately And Discover For Yourself; Then It Is Your Own, Not Somebody Else’s, Not Something That You Have Been Told, Because There Is No Teacher And No Follower.

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.

To Die Every Day To Every Problem, Every Pleasure, And Not Carry Over Any Problem At All; So The Mind Remains Tremendously Attentive, Active, Clear.

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.

To Learn About Oneself, A Living Thing, You Have To Watch, Learn Anew Each Minute.

The Constant Assertion Of Belief Is An Indication Of Fear.

A Mind That Is Always Comparing, Always Measuring, Will Always Engender Illusion. If I Am Measuring Myself Against You, Who Are Clever, More Intelligent, I Am Struggling To Be Like You And I Am Denying Myself As I Am. I Am Creating An Illusion.

Fear Is The Process Of The Mind In The Struggle Of Becoming. In Becoming Good There Is The Fear Of Evil; In Becoming Complete, There Is The Fear Of Loneliness.

It Is Raining And You Can Hear The Pattern Of The Drops. You Can Hear It With Your Ears, Or You Can Hear It Out Of That Deep Silence. If You Hear It With Complete Silence Of The Mind, Then The Beauty Of It Is Such That Cannot Be Put Into Words Or Onto Canvas, Because That Beauty Is Something Beyond Self-expression .

That Is, When The Mind Ceases To Create, Then There Is Creation.

The Very Attention Given To Finding Out If The Mind Can Be Completely Quiet Is Quietness.

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.

You Say You Love Your Wife. You Depend On Her; She Has Given You Her Body, Her Emotions, Her Encouragement, A Certain Feeling Of Security And Well-being. Then She Turns Away From You; She Gets Bored Or Goes Off With Someone Else, And Your Whole Emotional Balance Is Destroyed, And This Disturbance, Which You Don't Like, Is Called Jealousy. There Is Pain In It, Anxiety, Hate And Violence. So What You Are Really Saying Is, 'as Long As You Belong To Me I Love You But The Moment You Don't I Begin To Hate You.

The Moment You Have In Your Heart This Extraordinary Thing Called Love And Feel The Depth, The Delight, The Ecstasy Of It, You Will Discover That For You The World Is Transformed.

The Beauty Of Meditation Is That You Never Know Where You Are, Where You Are Going, What The End Is.

Enlightenment Is An Accident, But Some Activities Make You Accident-prone.

Only The Free Mind Knows What Love Is.

Religion Becomes A Matter Of Belief, And Belief Acts As A Limitation On The Mind; And The Mind Then Is Never Free.

So, To Meditate Is To Purge The Mind Of Its Self-centered Activity. And If You Have Come This Far In Meditation, You Will Find There Is Silence, A Total Emptiness. The Mind Is Uncontaminated By Society; It Is No Longer Subject To Any Influence, To The Pressure Of Any Desire. It Is Completely Alone, And Being Alone, Untouched It Is Innocent. Therefore There Is A Possibility For That Which Is Timeless, Eternal, To Come Into Being. This Whole Process Is Meditation.

There Is No Ideal In Observation. When You Have An Ideal, You Cease To Observe, You Are Then Merely Approximating The Present To The Idea, And Therefore There Is Duality, Conflict, And All The Rest Of It. The Mind Has To Be In The State When It Can See, Observe. The Experience Of The Observation Is Really An Astonishing State. In That There Is No Duality. The Mind Is Simply - Aware.

Do It Or Don't Do It But Get On With It.

Happy Is The Man Who Is Nothing.

Where There Is Fear There Is Aggression.

When The Mind Is Relaxed, No Longer Making An Effort, When It Is Quiet For Just A Few Seconds, Then The Problem Reveals Itself And It Is Solved. That Happens When The Mind Is Still, In The Interval Between Two Thoughts, Between Two Responses. In That State Of Mind, Understanding Comes.

I Do Not Know If You Have Ever Noticed That The More You Struggle To Understand, The Less You Understand Any Problem. But, The Moment You Cease To Struggle And Let The Problem Tell You The Whole Story, Give All Its Significance - Then There Is Understanding, Which Means, Obviously, That To Understand, The Mind Must Be Quiet.

Tradition, Long Conditioned Thinking, Can Bring About A Fixation, A Concept That One Readily Accepts, Perhaps Not With A Great Deal Of Thought.

Do Not Pursue What Should Be, But Understand What Is.

To Bring About A Fundamental, Radical Revolution, We Must Begin With Ourselves.

A Man Who Is Really Earnest Must Begin With Himself, He Must Be Passively Aware Of All His Thoughts, Feelings And Actions.

Intuition Is The Only True Guide In Life.

Again, I Maintain That No Organization Can Lead Man To Spirituality.

Good Heredity And Environment Are Necessary. You Cannot Compare The Child Of A Savage With The Child Of A Civilized Person.

Heredity And Environment

We All Want To Be Famous People, And The Moment We Want To Be Something We Are No Longer Free.

Truth Does Not Belong To An Individual.

If You Die To Everything You Know,including Your Family,yourmemory,everything You Have Felt,then Death Is A Purification,a Rejuvenating Process;then Death Brings Innocence And It Is Only The Innocent Who Are Passionate, Not The People Who Believe Or Who Want To Find Out What Happens After Death.

Silence Is Difficult And Arduous; It Is Not To Be Played With. It Isn't Something That You Can Experience By Reading A Book, Or By Listening To A Talk, Or By Sitting Together, Or By Retiring Into A Wood Or A Monastery. I Am Afraid None Of These Things Will Bring About This Silence. This Silence Demands Intense Psychological Work. You Have To Be Burningly Aware - Aware Of Your Speech, Aware Of Your Snobbishness, Aware Of Your Fears, Your Anxieties, Your Sense Of Guilt. And When You Die To All That, Then Out Of That Dying Comes The Beauty Of Silence.

But If You Have No Relationship With The Living Things On This Earth, You May Lose Whatever Relationship You Have With Humanity.

Change In Society Is Of Secondary Importance; That Will Come About Naturally, Inevitably, When You As A Human Being Bring About The Change In Yourself.

Changes In Society

As We Are - The World Is.

Freedom Lies Beyond The Field Of Consciousness.

The Word 'innocence' Means A Mind That Is Incapable Of Being Hurt.

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Each Breath Is Transforming Me Into Thine Image.

The Very Word "sorrow" Colours The Fact Of Sorrow, The Pain Of It.

A Mind That Practices Love Cannot Love.

If We Could, And We Must, Establish A Deep Long Abiding Relationship With Nature, With The Actual Trees, The Bushes, The Flowers, The Grass And The Fast Moving Clouds, Then We Would Never Slaughter Another Human Being For Any Reason Whatsoever.

If I Do Not Understand Myself, The Whole Complexity Of Myself, I Have No Basis For 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?

There Is No Such Thing As Living Alone, For All Living Is Relationship; But To Live Without Direct Relationship Demands High Intelligence, A Swifter And Greater Awareness For Self-discovery.

The Only Freedom Is The Freedom From The Known.

If You Lose Touch With Nature You Lose Touch With Humanity.

Self-knowledge Is Only From Moment To Moment, And Therefore There Is A Creative Happiness From Moment To Moment.

Being Discontented, We Either Seek A Different Job Or Merely Succumb To Environment...instead Of Causing Us To Question Life, The Whole Process Of Existence.

All Outward Forms Of Change Brought About By Wars, Revolutions, Reformations, Laws And Ideologies Have Failed Completely To Change The Basic Nature Of Man And Therefore Of Society.

Charity Is Unconscious Of Itself, There Is No Accumulation First And Then Distribution. It Is Like The Flower - Natural, Open, Spontaneous.

To Understand The Totality Of This Extraordinary Thing Called Life, One Must Obviously Not Be Too Definite About These Things. One Cannot Be Definite With Something Which Is So Immense, Which Is Not Measurable By Words. We Cannot Understand The Immeasurable So Long As We Approach It Through Time.

Meditation Practice

Yoga Exercises Are Excellent; The Speaker Does Them Every Day, For An Hour Or More; But That Is Merely Physical Exercise, To Keep The Body Healthy, And So On.

Surely, Life Is Not Merely A Job, An Occupation; Life Is Something Extraordinarily Wide And Profound, It Is A Great Mystery, A Vast Realm In Which We Function As Human Beings.

If You Realize That The Ultimate Happiness For All Depends Not On Disorder Of The Emotions For Either Sex, But In Harmonizing The Emotions, All The Problems Will Vanish.

Those Who Play A Safe Game Die Very Safely.

Silence Is Difficult And Arduous, It Is Not To Be Played With.

The Idea, The Pattern, Is Self-projected; It Is A Form Of Self-worship, Of Self-perpetuation, And Hence Gratifying.

If You Come Across Fear, Stare It In Its Eyes. Face It And You Will Notice That Fear Fades Away.

We Have So Committed Ourselves In Different Ways That We Have Hardly Any Time For Self-reflection, To Observe, To Study.

To Me, Then, True Criticism Consists In Trying To Find Out The Intrinsic Worth Of The Thing Itself, And Not In Attributing A Quality To That Thing. You Attribute A Quality To An Environment, To An Experience, Only When You Want To Derive Something From It, When You Want To Gain Or To Have Power Or Happiness. Now This Destroys True Criticism. Your Desire Is Perverted Through Attributing Values, And Therefore You Cannot See Clearly. Instead Of Trying To See The Flower In Its Original And Entire Beauty, You Look At It Through Coloured Glasses, And Therefore You Can Never See It As It Is.

Learning Is The Very Essence Of Humility . . .

From Innumerable Complexities We Must Grow To Simplicity; We Must Become Simple In Our Inward Life And In Our Outward Needs.

If You Do Not Give Your Children Freedom, When They Grow Up, They Will Break Away From The Family, And Then Your Hearts Will Be Broken.

National Discord Is, Like Religion, A Standardized Form Of Revolt; And The Moment A Revolt Is Standardized, It Is No Longer A Revolt.

Truth Is A Pathless Land.

So You Have To Be Your Own Teacher And Your Own Disciple, And There Is No Teacher Outside, No Saviour, No Master; You Yourself Have To Change, And Therefore You Have To Learn To Observe, To Know Yourself. This Learning About Yourself Is A Fascinating And Joyous Business.

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.

When I Said That I Am The Buddha, The Christ, The Lord Maitreya, And More, It Was Not A Question Of Superiority Or Inferiority. I Added That Phrase 'and More' Very Carefully, Because I Knew That People Had A Very Limited Understanding Of The Buddha And The Christ, And Hence If I Said: 'i Am The Christ, The Buddha', They Would Limit That Reality To Their Own Conceptions Of The Buddha Or The Christ, And Life Has No Limit.

There Can Only Be A Relationship Between Human Beings When We Accept What Is, Not What Should Be.

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.

I Do Not Think That You Can Try And Systematize Education For The Whole World. I Would Try Experiments In Small Communities And In Schools To See How They Work Out, Instead Of Taking The Children Of An Entire Nation And Trying To Bring Them Up On The Same System.

The Ending Of Sorrow Is The Beginning Of Wisdom. Knowledge Is Always Within The Shadow Of Ignorance. Meditation Is Freedom From Thought And A Movement In The Ecstasy Of Truth. Meditation Is Explosion Of Intelligence.

The Crisis Is Not Out There In The World, It Is Within Our Own Consciousness.

The Demand To Be Safe In A Relationship Inevitably Breeds Sorrow And Fear.

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.

This Is What I Am, And I Am Going To Understand This.

Most People Like To Live In Illusions.

To Live Humanly, Sanely, One Has To Change.

I Was Supremely Happy, For I Had Seen. Nothing Could Ever Be The Same. I Have Drunk At The Clear And Pure Waters And My Thirst Was Appeased. ...i Have Seen The Light. I Have Touched Compassion Which Heals All Sorrow And Suffering; It Is Not For Myself, But For The World. ...love In All Its Glory Has Intoxicated My Heart; My Heart Can Never Be Closed. I Have Drunk At The Fountain Of Joy And Eternal Beauty. I Am God-intoxicated.

All Tradition Is Merely The Past.

Till The False Is Seen As The False, Truth Is Not.

Our Brains Are So Conditioned Through Education, Through Religion, To Think We Are Separate Entities With Separate Souls And So On. We Are Not Individuals At All. We Are The Result Of Thousands Of Years Of Human Experience, Human Endeavor And Struggle.

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.

It Does Not Matter What You Call The Gaoler So Long As He Has The Key That Will Open The Door Of Your Prison! Similarly, As I Have The Key To Release Life From Its Prison, It Does Not Matter In The Least What You Call Either The Key Or Myself. I Am Not Concerned About The Title.

Awareness Is Observation Without Choice, Condemnation, Or Justification. Awareness Is Silent Observation From Which There Arises Understanding Without The Experiencer And The Experienced. In This Awareness, Which Is Passive, The Problem Or The Cause Is Given An Opportunity To Unfold Itself And So Give Its Full Significance. In Awareness There Is No End In View To Be Gained, And There Is No Becoming, The 'me' And The 'mine' Not Being Given The Continuity.

Look What Is Happening In The World - We Are Being Conditioned By Society, By The Culture We Live In, And That Culture Is The Product Of Man. There Is Nothing Holy, Or Divine, Or Eternal About Culture.

Do You Know Your Particular Fears? And What Do You Usually Do With Them? You Run Away From Them, Don't You, Or Invent Ideas And Images To Cover Them? But To Run Away From Fear Is Only To Increase 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.

Using Another As A Means Of Satisfaction And Security Is Not Love. Love Is Never Security; Love Is A State In Which There Is No Desire To Be Secure; It Is A State Of Vulnerability.

The World Is Me And I Am The World.

Without Total Freedom, Every Perception, Every Objective Regard, Is Twisted. It Is Only The Man Who Is Totally Free That Can Look And Understand Immediately. Freedom Implies Really, Doesn't It, The Total Emptying Of The Mind. To Completely Empty The Whole Content Of The Mind — That Is Real Freedom.

To Transform The World, We Must Begin With Ourselves; And What Is Important In Beginning With Ourselves Is The Intention. The Intention Must Be To Understand Ourselves And Not To Leave It To Others To Transform Themselves Or To Bring About A Modified Change Through Revolution, Either Of The Left Or Of The Right. It Is Important To Understand That This Is Our Responsibility, Yours And Mine.

Do You Decide To Observe? Or Do You Merely Observe?

But If One Observes, One Will See That The Body Has Its Own Intelligence; It Requires A Great Deal Of Intelligence To Observe The Intelligence Of The Body.

My Discord Must Be Different From Yours; My Revolt Must Not Be The Same Thing As Yours. It Will Not Be A Revolt If It Is Moulding Itself Around Your Revolt.

Truth Is Something Which You Must See Immediately — And To See Something Clearly You Must Give Your Heart And Your Mind And Your Whole Being To It Immediately.

The Becoming Still Can Never Be The Being Still; Only With The Death Of Becoming Is There Being.

As The Beauty Of The Picture Depends Not On The Painter But On The Picture Itself, What I Say Must Depend On Its Own Intrinsic Value And Not On The Authority Of My Attainment, Nor On The Authority Of Others.

Intrinsic Value

In The Space Which Thought Creates Around Itself There Is No Love. This Space Divides Man From Man.

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.

Only In Relationship Can You Know Yourself, Not In Abstraction And Certainly Not In Isolation. The Movement Of Behavior Is The Sure Guide To Yourself. It's The Mirror Of Your Consciousness; This Mirror Will Reveal Its Content, The Images, The Attachments, The Fears, The Loneliness, The Joy And Sorrow. Poverty Lies In Running Away From This, Either In Its Sublimations Or Its Identities.

I Don't Mind What Happens.

War Is A Stage Brought About By The Standardizing Of Thought, Revolt, And Life - Not By The Freedom Of Life, Not By The Revolt Of Life.

You Are This, Which Does Not Satisfy, So You Want To Be That. If There Were An Understanding Of This, Would That Come Into Being? Because You Do Not Understand This, You Create That, Hoping Through That To Understand Or To Escape From This.

To Come Upon Love Without Seeking It Is The Only Way To Find It.

It Is Only In Alert Silence That Truth Can Be.

Don't We Introduce Time As A Means Of Becoming More Evolved? The Brain Has Evolved But Is There Evolution Inwardly? Can The Brain Dominated By Time Not Be Subservient To It?

Goodness Has No Opposite. Most Of Us Consider Goodness As The Opposite Of The Bad Or Evil And So Throughout History In Any Culture Goodness Has Been Considered The Other Face Of That Which Is Brutal. So Man Has Always Struggled Against Evil In Order To Be Good; But Goodness Can Never Come Into Being If There Is Any Form Of Violence Or Struggle.

When The Mind Sees Itself In The Mirror Of Relationship, From That Perception There Is Self-knowledge.

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