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So Let Us Decide Whether You Want A Shelter, A Safety Zone, Which Will No Longer Yield Conflict, Whether You Want To Escape From The Present Conflict To Enter A Condition In Which There Shall Be No Conflict; Or Whether You Are Unaware, Unconscious Of This Conflict In Which You Exist. If You Are Unconscious Of The Conflict, That Is, The Battle That Is Taking Place Between That Self And The Environment, If You Are Unconscious Of That Battle, Then Why Do You Seek Further Remedies? Remain Unconscious.

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So Let Us Decide Whether You Want A Shelter, A Safety Zone, Which Will No Longer Yield Conflict, Whether You Want To Escape From The Present Conflict To Enter A Condition In Which There Shall Be No Conflict; Or Whether You Are Unaware, Unconscious Of This Conflict In Which You Exist. If You Are Unconscious Of The Conflict, That Is, The Battle That Is Taking Place Between That Self And The Environment, If You Are Unconscious Of That Battle, Then Why Do You Seek Further Remedies? Remain Unconscious.

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Truth Is A Pathless Land.

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Freedom From Something Is Not Freedom.

Without Knowing Yourself, There Is No Peace.

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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.

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Intuition Is The Whisper Of The Soul.

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The Authority Of A Belief Imposed By Religion Surely Destroys The Discovery Of Reality.one Relies On Authority Because One Is Afraid To Stand Alone.

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

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Without Knowing Myself, I Have No Real Basis For Thinking.

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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.

If You Lose Touch With Nature You Lose Touch With Humanity. If There's No Relationship With Nature Then You Become A Killer; Then You Kill Baby Seals, Whales, Dolphins, And Man Either For Gain, For "sport," For Food, Or For Knowledge. Then Nature Is Frightened Of You, Withdrawing Its Beauty. You May Take Long Walks In The Woods Or Camp In Lovely Places But You Are A Killer And So Lose Their Friendship. You Probably Are Not Related To Anything To Your Wife Or Your Husband.

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 Description Is Not The Described.

Most People Are Unhappy; And They Are Unhappy Because There Is No Love In Their Hearts.

And The Idea Of Ourselves Is Our Escape From The Fact What We Really Are.

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.

Why Haven't We, With All Our Cunning, Experience, Resolved This Problem Of Fear Completely? Isn't Fear The Cause Of The 'me'?

In The Space Which Thought Creates Around Itself There Is No Love. This Space Divides Man From Man, And In It Is All The Becoming, The Battle Of Life, The Agony And Fear. Meditation Is The Ending Of This Space, The Ending Of The Me.

You May Repeat The Most Marvelous Poems. And That Is Not Worth A Cent If You Don't Live It.

The Thought Is Not The Thing.

When You Call Yourself An Indian Or A Muslim Or A Christian Or A European, Or Anything Else, You Are Being Violent. Do You See Why It Is Violent? Because You Are Separating Yourself From The Rest Of Mankind. When You Separate Yourself By Belief, By Nationality, By Tradition, It Breeds Violence. So 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 Understand What Is Right Meditation There Must Be An Awareness Of The Operation Of One's Own Consciousness, And Then There Is Complete Attention.

Do Not Repeat After Me Words That You Do Not Understand. Do Not Merely Put On A Mask Of My Ideas, For It Will Be An Illusion And You Will Thereby Deceive Yourself.

In Nothingness, There Is Everything, Energy. The Ending Is A Beginning.

Now, Is It Possible Not To Be Hurt At All? Because The Consequences Of Being Hurt Are The Building Of A Wall Around Oneself, Withdrawing In One's Relationship With Others In Order Not To Be Hurt More. In That There Is Fear And A Gradual Isolation. Now, We Are Asking: Is It Possible Not Only To Be Free Of Past Hurts But Also Never To Be Hurt Again?

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.

In Our Relationship With Children And Young People, We Are Not Dealing With Mechanical Devices That Can Be Quickly Repaired, But With Living Beings Who Are Impressionable, Volatile, Sensitive, Afraid, Affectionate; And To Deal With Them We Have To Have Great Understanding, The Strength Of Patience And Love.

The Origin Is Nameless; The Origin Is Absolutely Quiet, It Is Not Whirring About Making Noise. Creation Is Something That Is Most Holy, That Is The Most Sacred Thing In Life, And If You Have Made A Mess Of Your Life, Change It. Change It Today, Not Tomorrow. If You Are Uncertain, Find Out Why And Be Certain. If Your Thinking Is Not Straight, Think Straight, Logically, Unless All That Is Prepared, All That Is Settled, You Cannot Enter Into This World, Into The World Of Creation.

The Constant Assertion Of Belief Is An Indication Of Fear.

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

Merely To Stuff The Child With A Lot Of Information, Making Him Pass Examinations, Is The Most Unintelligent Form Of Education.

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

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Only When The Mind Is Tranquil-through Self-knowledge And Not Through Imposed Self-discipline-only Then, In That Tranquillity, In That Silence, Can Reality Come Into Being. It Is Only Then That There Can Be Bliss, That There Can Be Creative Action.

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[on The Secret To A Happy, Content Life] Do You Want To Know What My Secret Is? I Don’t Mind What Happens.

Not To Know Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

The Moment I Am Aware That I Am Aware, I Am Not Aware. Awareness Means The Observer Is Not.

When You Practice Meditation, The Meditator Becomes All-important And Not The Movement Of Meditation.

If People Are Foolish, They Are Bound To Mix The Personality And The Truth, And To Build A Temple Around The Personality And Form A Religion.

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.

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.

There Is Only That Inevitable Danger As Long As There Is Lack Of Understanding; But The Moment The Individual Understands, There Will Be No Formation Of Religion.

When We Stop Learning In Our Relationship, Whether We Are Studying, Playing Or Whatever We Are Doing, And Merely Act From The Knowledge We Have Accumulated, Then Disorder Comes.

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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.

Fear Is Nonacceptance Of What Is.

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.

Meditation Is Not The Pursuit Of Pleasure And The Search For Happiness. Meditation, On The Contrary, Is A State Of Mind In Which There Is No Concept Or Formula, And Therefore Total Freedom. It Is Only To Such A Mind That This Bliss Comes Unsought And Uninvited. Once It Is There, Though You May Live In The World With All Its Noise, Pleasure And Brutality, They Will Not Touch That Mind.

Transformation Can Only Take Place Immediately; The Revolution Is Now, Not Tomorrow.

The Flowering Of Love Is Meditation.

The Function Of Education Is To Help You From Childhood Not To Imitate Anybody, But Be Yourself All The Time.

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

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

Most Of Us Waste Our Energy Through Chattering - Endlessly Chattering, Gossiping, Criticising, Backbiting.

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.

It Is Only The Dull, Sleepy Mind That Creates And Clings To Habit. A Mind That Is Attentive From Moment To Moment - Attentive To What It Is Saying, Attentive To The Movement Of Its Hands, Of Its Thoughts, Of Its Feelings - Will Discover That The Formation Of Further Habits Has Come To An End.

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.

Intelligence Is The Capacity To Perceive The Essential, The What Is; And To Awaken This Capacity, In Oneself And In Others, Is Education.

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.

We Need Tremendous Energy To Bring About A Psychological Change In Ourselves As Human Beings, Because We Have Lived Far Too Long In A World Of Make-belief, In A World Of Brutality, Violence, Despair, Anxiety. To Live Humanly, Sanely, One Has To Change.

You Cannot Prevent A Man Getting Drunk If He Wishes To Do So, But When He Becomes A Nuisance, Then You Interfere.

Religion Is The Frozen Thought Of Man Out Of Which They Build Temples.

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.

Intuition Is The Only True Guide In Life.

If There Is No Meditation, Then You Are Like A Blind Man In A World Of Great Beauty, Light And Colour.

Where There Is Love, Do What You Will, It Will Be Right Action. It Will Never Bring Conflict To One's Life. In The Flame Of Love, All Fear Is Consumed.

When There Is Love, There Is No Duty. When You Love Your Wife, You Share Everything With Her-your Property, Your Trouble, Your Anxiety, Your Joy. You Do Not Dominate. You Are Not The Man And She Is Not The Woman To Be Used And Thrown Aside, A Sort Of Breeding Machine To Carry On Your Name. When There Is Love, The Word Duty Disappears.

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.

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