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“There is no belief demanded or asked, there are no followers, there are no cults, there is no persuasion of any kind, in any direction, and therefore only then we can meet on the same platform, on the same ground, at the same level. Then we can together observe the extraordinary phenomena of human existence.”
Life is always in movement, never static. But, our minds are static. Our minds are conditioned, held, tethered to dogma, to belief, to experience, to knowledge.
It is only the free mind that can meet life, not the mind that is tethered to any system, to any belief, to any particular knowledge.
Self-knowledge is obviously a process, not an end in itself; and to know oneself, one must be aware of oneself in action, which is relationship. You discover yourself, not in isolation, not in withdrawal, but in relationship
society is the product of our relationship—and if our relationship is confused, egocentric, narrow, limited, national, we project that and bring chaos into the world.
self-knowledge can come only through relationship, not through isolation. Relationship is action, and self-knowledge is the result of awareness in action.
Maturity is not a matter of age; it comes with understanding.
If, in each one of us, the center of the ‘me’ is non-existent, with its desire for power, position, authority, continuance, self-preservation, surely our problems will come to an end!
The self is a problem that thought cannot resolve. There must be an awareness which is not of thought.
you cannot go after happiness.
happiness is not a thing to be pursued; it comes. But if you seek it, it will evade you.
Do you want to be happy? Read this quote
When the mind goes beyond the thought of the ‘me’, the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of happiness which is incorruptible.
when the mind is free from the ‘me’, there is a happiness, from moment to moment, which comes without your seeking, in which there is no gathering, no storing up, no putting by of happiness.
When one feels completely insecure, one runs away.
one becomes a most devout religious person—which are all the same,
We are endlessly seeking, and we never ask why we are seeking.
When we are seeking, we are always finding. Unfortunately, we will always find when we are seeking.
We are seeking because in us there is such deep dissatisfaction with our family, with society, with culture, with our own selves, and we want to satisfy, to go beyond this gnawing discontent that is destroying.
Pursue a thought completely to its very end. Think it out fully, feel it out and discover for yourself what happens. You will find that there is no thinker at all.
There is only thought, and the bundle of thought creates the ‘me’, the thinker.
thought is the result of a response, neurological or psychological, the response of stored-up memory.
You would have no thoughts if you had no memory,
All thinking is the result of the past.
thought is the result of time, and time is this consciousness. Whatever you do within the field of this consciousness, sorrow can never end.
sorrow cannot be ended through thought.
When you are caught in your own thoughts, in your own agony, in your own superstitions, in your deadly, daily routine of habit and thoughtlessness, that is also death—not just the ending of the body.
Right thought and right thinking are two different states.
Right thought is static; it involves the constant friction of choice. Right thinking or true thinking is to be discovered. It cannot be learned. It cannot be practiced. Right thinking is a movement of self-knowledge from moment to moment.
Right thinking can only come into being when there is awareness of every thought and feeling, the awareness not only of a particular group of thoughts and feelings, but of all thoughts and feelings.
