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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.

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Belief Conditions Experience, And Experience Then Strengthens Belief.

And The Point Is, Is It Possible For The Mind To Be Totally Free From Suffering And Yet Not Become Indifferent, Callous, Irresponsible, But To Have That Passion, The Intensity, The Energy That Freedom Brings, Freedom From Suffering.

What Sex Gives You Momentarily Is The Total Abandonment Of Yourself, Then You Are Back Again With Your Turmoil, So You Want A Repetition Over And Over Again Of That State In Which There Is No Worry, No Problem, No Self.

Freedom Is Entirely Different From Revolt. There Is No Such Thing As Doing Right Or Wrong When There Is Freedom. You Are Free And From That Centre You Act.

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.

When I Understand Myself, I Understand You, And Out Of That Understanding Comes Love. Love Is The Missing Factor; There Is A Lack Of Affection, Of Warmth In Relationship; And Because We Lack That Love, That Tenderness, That Generosity, That Mercy In Relationship, We Escape Into Mass Action Which Produces Further Confusion, Further Misery. We Fill Our Hearts With Blueprints For World Reform And Do Not Look To That One Resolving Factor Which Is Love.

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.

We All Place Ourselves At Various Levels, And We Are Constantly Falling From These Heights. It Is The Falls We Are Ashamed Of. Self-esteem Is The Cause Of Our Shame, Of Our Fall. It Is This Self-esteem That Must Be Understood, And Not The Fall.

If We Want To Change Existing Conditions, We Must First Transform Ourselves, Which Means That We Must Become Aware Of Our Own Actions, Thoughts And Feelings In Everyday Life.

The Purpose Of Having The Title 'world-teacher' Is To Acknowledge, To Show, The Condition Of Mind And Heart When You Have Achieved. It Is Like Saying: 'i Have Painted A Picture'. It Is Like Saying: 'i Have Written A Poem'. It Is An Assertion Of The Fact Of Attainment, Rather Than The Narrow Understanding That Is Given To Labels And Phrases. What The Phrase Indicates Is Of Importance.

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

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.

Religion Becomes A Matter Of Belief, And Belief Acts As A Limitation On The Mind; And The Mind Then Is Never Free. But It Is Only In Freedom That You Can Find Out What Is True, What Is God, Not Through Any Belief; Because Your Belief Projects What You Think God Ought To Be, What You Think Ought To Be True. If You Believe God Is Love, God Is Good, God Is This Or That, Your Very Belief Prevents You From Understanding What Is God, What Is True.

Thought Is So Cunning, So Clever, That It Distorts Everything For Its Own Convenience.

As Long As You Are Held Within A Pattern You Must Create Disorder In The World.

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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?

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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.

We Carry About Us The Burden Of What Thousands Of People Have Said And The Memories Of All Our Misfortunes. To Abandon All That Is To Be Alone, And The Mind That Is Alone Is Not Only Innocent But Young -- Not In Time Or Age, But Young, Innocent, Alive At Whatever Age -- And Only Such A Mind Can See That Which Is Truth And That Which Is Not Measurable By Words.

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 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 No Measure Of Health To Be Well Adjusted To A Profoundly Sick Society. We Have Lost It, Or We Have Never Had It; And, Because We Do Not Know How To Judge Anything, We Have Been Led Here And Pushed There, Beaten Up, Driven, Politically, Religiously And Socially. We Don't Know, But It Is Difficult To Say We Don't Know.

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.

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Meditation Is Not A Withdrawal From Life. Meditation Is A Process Of Understanding Oneself.

The Craving To Become Causes Fears; To Be, To Achieve, And So To Depend Engenders Fear.

Knowledge About Yourself Binds, Weighs, Ties You Down; There Is No Freedom To Move, And You Act And Move Within The Limits Of Thatknowledge. Learning About Yourself Is Never The Same As Accumulating Knowledge About Yourself. Learning Is Active Present And Knowledge Is The Past; If You Are Learning To Accumulate, It Ceases To Be Learning; Knowledge Is Static, More Can Be Added To It Or Taken Away From It, But Learning Is Active, Nothing Can Be Added Or Taken Away From It For There Is No Accumulation At Any Time.

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.

Sorrow Is Not In Death But In Loneliness, And Conflict Comes When You Seek Consolation, Forgetfullness, Explanations, And Illusions.

No Book Can Teach You About Yourself, No Psychologist, None Of The Professors Or Philosophers. What They Can Teach You Is What They Think You Are Or What They Think You Should Be.

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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.

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If You Begin To Understand What You Are Without Trying To Change It, Then What You Are Undergoes A Transformation.

Aloneness Is Obviously Not Isolation, And It Is Not Uniqueness. To Be Unique Is Merely To Be Exceptional In Some Way, Whereas To Be Completely Alone Demands Extraordinary Sensitivity, Intelligence, Understanding.

Freedom Is Not A Reaction; Freedom Is Not A Choice. . Freedom Is Found In The Choiceless Awareness Of Our Daily Existence And Activity.

To Know Oneself Is To Study Oneself In Action, Which Is Relationship.

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

You Are Christians; Find Out What Is True And False In Christianity - And You Will Then Find Out What Is True. Find Out What Is True And False In Your Environment With All Its Oppressions And Cruelties, And Then You Will Find Out What Is True. Why Do You Want Philosophies?

You Have Been Overcome; And Whether You Are Overcome By Envy Or By A So-called Noble Influence, You Are Still A Slave, You Are Not Free.

Meditation, Then, Is A State Of Mind In Which The 'me' Is Absent. And Therefore That Very Absence Brings Order.

A Consistent Thinker Is A Thoughtless Person, Because He Conforms To A Pattern; He Repeats Phrases And Thinks In A Groove.

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Your Belief In God Is Merely An Escape From Your Monotonous, Stupid And Cruel Life.

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Without Freedom, There Is No Creation.

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It Is Truth That Liberates, Not Your Effort To Be Free.

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.

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.

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The Man-made Laws Have Been Made By Men Who Have Not Perceived The Final Goal Towards Which They Are Making. And That Is Why It Is So Important To Insist Upon The Final Thing First, And Then All The Regulations, All The Disciplines, Will Follow.

Freedom Comes With Self-knowledge, When The Mind Goes Above And Beyond The Hindrances It Has Created For Itself.

To Understand Yourself Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

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.

All Life Is A Movement In Relationship. There Is No Living Thing On Earth Which Is Not Related To Something Or Other.

If We Can Really Understand The Problem, The Answer Will Come Out Of It, Because The Answer Is Not Separate From The Problem.

Its Beautiful To Be Alone. To Be Alone Does Not Mean To Be Lonely. It Means The Mind Is Not Influenced And Contaminated By Society.

To Live Humanly, Sanely, One Has To Change.

Relationship Is A Mirror In Which You Can See Yourself, Not As You Would Wish To Be, But As You Are.

Fear Is Nonacceptance Of What Is.

All Paths Do Not Lead To Truth. There Is No Path To Truth, It Must Come To You.

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

Meditation Is The Action Of Silence.

My Chief Concern Is To Make Clear The Truth Which I Have Attained, To Give An Understanding Of The Truth, Which Is The Truth For All. And Hence, If There Is Understanding Rather Than Blind Following, People Will Not Create A Religion.

Learning Implies A Mind That Doesn't Know.

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.

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.

Intuition Is The Whisper Of The Soul.

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.

Without Discontentment, Without Revolt, You Can Never Attain Harmony. It Is A Necessary Stage, Which Must Be Gone Through By Everyone.

All Authority Of Any Kind, Especially In The Field Of Thought And Understanding, Is The Most Destructive, Evil Thing. Leaders Destroy The Followers And Followers Destroy The Leaders. You Have To Be Your Own Teacher And Your Own Disciple. You Have To Question Everything That Man Has Accepted As Valuable, As Necessary.

All Ideologies Are Idiotic, Whether Religious Or Political, For It Is Conceptual Thinking, The Conceptual Word, Which Has So Unfortunately Divided Man.

A Mind That Practices Love Cannot Love.

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.

Order Cannot Possibly Be Brought About Through Conformity To A Pattern, Under Any Circumstances.

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.

By Our Pontifical Assertions, Our Superior Impatience, And Our Casual Brushing Aside Of Their Curiosity, We Do Not Encourage Their Inquiry, For We Are Rather Apprehensive Of What May Be Asked Of Us; We Do Not Foster Their Discontent, For We Ourselves Have Ceased To Question.

After All You Grow By Experience. But While Your Son Is Young, You Should Try To Set Before Him His Ultimate Goal.

Intelligence Is The Seeing Of What Is.

Do You Know That Even When You Look At A Tree And Say, `that Is An Oak Tree', Or `that Is A Banyan Tree', The Naming Of The Tree, Which Is Botanical Knowledge, Has So Conditioned Your Mind That The Word Comes Between You And Actually Seeing The Tree? To Come In Contact With The Tree You Have To Put Your Hand On It And The Word Will Not Help You To Touch It.

Have You Ever Sat Very Quietly With Closed Eyes And Watched The Movement Of Your Own Thinking? Have You Watched Your Mind Working?or Rather, Has Your Mind Watched Itself In Operation, Just To See What Your Thoughts Are, What Your Feelings Are, How You Look At The Trees, At The Flowers, At The Birds, At People, How You Respond To A Suggestion Or React To A New Idea? Have You Ever Done This?

If Your Eyes Are Blinded With Your Worries, You Cannot See The Beauty Of The Sunset.

Identification Prevents And Perverts The Flow Of Thought-feeling.

Introspection Is Self-improvement And Therefore Introspection Is Self-centeredness. Awareness Is Not Self-improvement. On The Contrary, It Is The Ending Of The Self, Of The “i,” With All Its Peculiar Idiosyncrasies, Memories, Demands, And Pursuits. In Introspection There Is Identification And Condemnation. In Awareness There Is No Condemnation Or Identification; Therefore, There Is No Self-improvement. There Is A Vast Difference Between The Two.

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.

Truth Is A Pathless Land.

If You Find Out What It Is You Love To Do And Give Your Whole Life To It, Then There Is No Contradiction, And In That State Your Being Is Your Doing.

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

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.

So Through Identification You Have Pleasure And Pain.

Though We Are All Human Beings, We Have Built Walls Between Ourselves And Our Neighbors Through Nationalism, Through Race, Caste, And Class - Which Again Breeds Isolation, Loneliness.

When You Once See Something As False Which You Have Accepted As True, As Natural, As Human, Then You Can Never Go Back To It.

Disillusionment

Love May Be The Ultimate Solution To All Man's Difficulties, Problems And Travails.

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.

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

The Observer Is The Observed.

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

You Only Learn When You Give Your Whole Being To Something. When You Give Your Whole Being To Mathematics,you Learn; But When You Are In A State Of Contradiction, When You Do Not Want To Learn But Are Forced To Learn, Then It Becomes Merely A Process Of Accumulation. To Learn Is Like Reading A Novel With Innumerable Characters; It Requires Your Full Attention, Not Contradictory Attention.

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 .

It Seems To Me That The Real Problem Is The Mind Itself And Not The Problem Which The Mind Has Created And Tries To Solve.

The Difference Between Me And You Is... That I Don't Mind What Happens.

The Unknown Is Not Measurable By The Known. Time Cannot Measure The Timeless, The Eternal, That Immensity Which Has No Beginning And No End... When We Try To Measure Something Which Is Not Measurable, We Only Get Caught In Words.

A Mind That Is Afraid Withers Away; It Cannot Function Properly.

Perception Without The Word, Which Is Without Thought, Is One Of The Strangest Phenomena. Then The Perception Is Much More Acute, Not Only With The Brain, But Also With All The Senses. Such Perception Is Not The Fragmentary Perception Of The Intellect Nor The Affair Of The Emotions. It Can Be Called A Total Perception, And It Is Part Of Meditation.

To Understand Life Is To Understand Ourselves, And That Is Both The Beginning And The End Of Education.

Right Education Should Help The Student, Not Only To Develop His Capacities, But To Understand His Own Highest Interest.

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.

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

Beyond All Explanations Which A Good Brain Can Give, Why Do We Choose The Worse And Not The Better, Why Hate Rather Than Love, Why Greed And Not Generosity, Why Self-centred Activity And Not Open Total Action? Why Be Mean When There Are Soaring Mountains And Flashing Streams? Why Jealousy And Not Love? Why?

We Demand To Be Coaxed And Comforted, To Be Encouraged And Gratified, So We Choose A Teacher Who Will Give Us What We Crave For. We Do Not Search Out Reality, But Go After Gratification And Sensation.

What Is Correct Action In A Deteriorating World?

Most Of Us Are Frightened Of Dying Because We Don't Know What It Meant To Live.we Don't Know How To Live,therefore We Don't Know How To Die

Happy Is The Man Who Is Nothing.

The Real Student Is Studying, Learning, Inquiring, Exploring, Not Just Until He Is Twenty Or Twenty-five, But Throughout Life.

My Only Concern Is To Set Men Absolutely, Unconditionally Free.

Student: Sir, You Said You Must Change The World. How Can You Change It, Sir? Krishnamurti: What Is The World? The World Is Where You Live - Your Family, Your Friends, Your Neighbours. And Your Family, Your Friends, Your Neighbours Can Be Extended And That Is The World. Now, You Are The Centre Of That World. That Is The World You Live In. Now How Will You Change The World? By Changing Yourself?

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

The Society In Which We Live Is The Result Of Our Psychological State.

We Are Empty Shells If We Do Not Possess, If We Do Not Fill Our Life With Furniture, With Music, With Knowledge, With This Or That. And That Shell Makes A Lot Of Noise, And That Noise We Call Living, And With That We Are Satisfied.

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

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.

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.

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

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

To Keep Always In The Same Place Means To Stagnate.

Surely Education Has No Meaning Unless It Helps You Understand The Vast Experience Of Life With All Its Subtleties, With Its Extraordinary Beauty, Its Sorrows And Joys. You May Earn Degrees, You May Have A Series Of Letters After Your Name And Land A Good Job, But Then What? What Is The Point Of It All If In The Process Your Mind Becomes Dull, Weary, Stupid?

Extraordinary Beauty

Identification With The Rag Called The National Flag Is An Emotional And Sentimental Factor And For That Factor You Are Willing To Kill Another - And That Is Called, The Love Of Your Country, Love Of The Neighbor . . .? One Can See That Where Sentiment And Emotion Come In, Love Is Not.

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

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

Thought Comes To An End. Then There Is That Sense Of Absolute Silence In The Brain. All The Movement Of Thought Has Ended.

In Awareness There Is No Becoming, There Is No End To Be Gained. There Is Silent Observation Without Choice And Condemnation, From Which There Comes Understanding.

Some Go To Sleep In An Organization And Never Wake Up, And Those Who Do Wake Up Put Them Selves To Sleep Again By Joining Another. This Acquisitive Movement Is Called Expansion Of Thought, Progress.

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

You May Remember The Story Of How The Devil And A Friend Of His Were Walking Down The Street, When They Saw Ahead Of Them A Man Stoop Down And Pick Up Something From The Ground, Look At It, And Put It Away In His Pocket. The Friend Said To The Devil, "what Did That Man Pick Up?" "he Picked Up A Piece Of The Truth," Said The Devil. "that Is A Very Bad Business For You, Then," Said His Friend. "oh, Not At All," The Devil Replied, "i Am Going To Help Him Organize It."

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

Does Life Continue Beyond The Door? The Fulfilment Of Life Is Not Annihilation - On The Contrary - I Am Much More Ambitious, Much More Desirous, Much More Eager Than You Are. It Is Life. Therefore It Cannot Be Annihilation, For You Cannot Annihilate Life!

The Fact Is There Is Nothing That You Can Trust; And That Is A Terrible Fact, Whether You Like It Or Not. Psychologically There Is Nothing In The World, That You Can Put Your Faith, Your Trust, Or Your Belief In. Neither Your Gods, Nor Your Science Can Save You, Can Bring You Psychological Certainty; And You Have To Accept That You Can Trust In Absolutely Nothing.

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.

Only When The Mind Is Still, Tranquil, Not Expecting Or Grasping Or Resisting A Single Thing, Is It Possible To See What Is True. It Is The Truth That Liberates, Not Your Effort To Be Free.

To Understand Oneself Requires Patience, Tolerant Awareness; The Self Is A Book Of Many Volumes Which You Cannot Read In A Day, But When Once You Begin To Read, You Must Read Every Word, Every Sentence, Every Paragraph For In Them Are The Intimations Of The Whole. The Beginning Of It Is The Ending Of It. If You Know How To Read, Supreme Wisdom Is To Be Found.

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

Intelligence Comes Into Being When The Mind, The Heart And The Body Are Really Harmonious.

You Yourself Are The Teacher, And The Pupil, You're The Master, You're The Guru, You Are The Leader, You Are Everything! And, To Understand Is To Transform What Is.

When We Suffer We Have Made It Into A Personal Affair. We Shut Out All The Suffering Of Mankind.

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.

If There Is No Order In Your Relationship With Your Wife, With Your Husband, With Your Children, With Your Neighbour - Whether That Neighbour Is Near Or Very Far Away - Forget About Meditation.

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

As We Are - The World Is.

The Only Thing That Really Matters Is That There Be An Action Of Goodness, Love And Intelligence In Living. Is Goodness Individual Or Collective, Is Love Personal Or Impersonal, Is Intelligence Yours, Mine Or Somebody Else? If It Is Yours Or Mine Then It Is Not Intelligence, Or Love, Or Goodness. If Goodness Is An Affair Of The Individual Or Of The Collective, According To One's Particular Preference Or Decision, Then It Is No Longer Goodness.

The Very Urge To Get Rid Of Desire Is Still Desire, Is It Not?

Life Is A Joyous Thing Essentially, But When You Bind Life By All These Rigid Moralities And Traditions, And Dogmas And Creeds, Then There Is Misery.

Can Another Help Bring About A Transformation In You? If He Can, You Are Not Transformed; You Are Merely Dominated, Influenced.

Awareness Is That State Of Mind Which Takes In Everything-the Crows Flying Across The Sky, The Flowers On The Trees, The People Sitting In Front, The Colors They Are Wearing - Being Extensively Aware, Which Needs Watching, Observing, Taking In The Shape Of The Leaf, The Shape Of The Trunk, The Shape Of The Head Of Another, What He Is Doing.

...choice In Every Form Is Conflict. Contradiction Is Inevitable In Choice; This Contradiction, Inner And Outer Breeds Confusion And Misery.

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

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.

Learning Is Not The Accumulation Of Knowledge. Learning Is Movement From Moment To Moment.

Without Freedom From The Past, There Is No Freedom To All.

Hasn't Knowledge Only Crippled Me From Seeing Truth? Is Knowledge Itself Illusory?

I Should Say That All Compromise Is A "stepping Down" Of The Truth, Is Trying To Reduce Something Which Cannot Be Reduced, And That For Anyone Who Has Understood Life These Compromises Are Impossible.

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