Kindle Notes & Highlights
Buddha is not an atheist but he never talks about God.
For one year just be silent so that you can drop your knowledge.
Religious people avoid argument because they know they don’t have any base from which to argue.
One has to leave the parents, one has to leave the home, one has to leave the past. One has to become totally independent, alone – trembling in that aloneness – but one has to become alone.
To be alone is the greatest achievement.
To be alone is really the greatest miracle.
the group only gets as high as its lowest member.”
If someday you want to be really altruistic, be selfish.
What Buddha calls nothingness is nothingness from your side.
become insecure so you become sharp.
Good is not that which one needs to do. Good is when you are not a doer.
Be naked as you are. Let people feel your real pulse, and you will not be at loss.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi says: “If you meditate you will become successful, you will become rich.”
When your inquiry becomes so passionate – by passionate I mean when it becomes a question of life and death – when you cannot rest at ease unless you know the truth, when you are ready to die for it, for your inquiry, only then can you find a real master.
Becoming aware, one goes beyond the mind, and that state of beyond the mind is the state of freedom.
the whole effort of sadhana is to help you to become alone.