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really alive man will always feel insecure.
an intelligent man always remains uncertain.
This very readiness to remain in uncertainty is courage.
To be, not to think, is the way to know the fundamental.
Thinking can think only about the known—it can chew the already chewed.
to come upon reality as if you are the first person to exist—that is liberating.
TRUTH IS AN EXPERIENCE, NOT A BELIEF.
Why don’t people trust? Because they don’t trust their intelligence.
TRUST IS THE GREATEST INTELLIGENCE.
To be in the state of not knowing is intelligence,
Trust is personal; belief is social.
Only a man of great trust is capable of great doubt, great inquiry.
Intelligence is intellect in tune with your heart.
Nothing fails like success.
Success is significant only if you are a failure.
that death of the ego, that makes a man alive.
To die in the ego is to be born into being.
to be blissful is the greatest courage.
A man really becomes a man when he accepts total responsibitity–he is responsible for whatsoever he is. This is the first courage, the greatest courage.
Bravery is not fearlessness; it is fear well protected, well defended, armored.
a state of no contact with existence is fear.
If you love, you have tasted something of life;
when the heart is really full you cannot speak.
The real opposite of love is fear.
Love sharpens intelligence, fear dulls it.
Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone.
that which can disappear is worth disappearing.
a Master takes away things from you which you don’t really have, and he gives you that which you really have.
Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone.
God is not a person but the ultimate sense of well-being, the ultimate sense of being at home, the ultimate sense that “I belong to this world and this world belongs to me.
THE GREATEST FEAR IN THE WORLD IS OF THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS.
The crowd is not pulling you–you are being pulled, not by somebody else but by your own unconscious conditioning.
Many a hero is a man who did not have the courage to be a coward.
life thrives only when there is risk.
If you welcome the beyond, the beyond welcomes you; the beyond always goes on echoing you.
The more alive the person, the more problems there are. But there is nothing wrong in it because struggling with problems, fighting with the challenge, is how you grow.
Fear accepted becomes freedom; fear denied, rejected, condemned, becomes guilt.
Meditation means that you are feeling good in your loneliness.
