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Come home to yourself. Observe yourself.
self-observation is such a delightful and extraordinary thing.
Nothing will ever be able to touch you again and no one will ever be able to hurt you again. You will fear no one and you will fear nothing.
You fear no one because you’re perfectly content to be nobody. You don’t give a damn about success or failure. They mean nothing.
They react differently. In fact, they react less and act more. You see things you’ve never seen before.
You’re much more energetic, much more alive.
anand—bliss,
There’s only one reason why you’re not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it’s because you’re thinking or focusing on what you don’t have. Otherwise you would be experiencing bliss.
You’re focusing on what you don’t have. But, right now you have everything y...
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Be aware of what you’re saying, be aware of what you’re doing, be aware of what you’re thinking, be aware of how you’re acting.
What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.
As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don’t seek the truth; just drop your opinions.”
Having a lot of money has nothing to do with being a success in life. You’re a success in life when you wake up!
You have no worries; you’re happy. That’s what I call being a success.
Stop identifying with them. They come and go.
When you really understand this, no criticism can affect you.
To acquire happiness you don’t have to do anything, because happiness cannot be acquired. Does anybody know why? Because we have it already.
You’ve got to drop illusions.
The first thing you need to do is get in touch with negative feelings that you’re not even aware
From every pore or living cell of our bodies and from all our senses we are getting feedback from reality. But we are filtering things out constantly.
who’s doing the filtering. It’s called attachment, desire, craving.
Samuel Johnson said, “The knowledge that he is to swing from a scaffold within a week wonderfully concentrates a man’s mind.”
We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause—for what they called success.
Your behavior may change, but you don’t. You only change through awareness and understanding.
Somebody brainwashed me into thinking I need his or her love. But I really don’t. I don’t need anybody’s love; I just need to get in touch with reality.
“I really don’t need you. I can be perfectly happy without you.
I find I can enjoy your company thoroughly—no more anxieties, no more jealousies, no more possessiveness, no more clinging. It is a delight to be with you when I am enjoying you on a nonclinging basis. You’re free; so am I.”
really like him.” I find out later that it’s because he likes me that I like him.
An attachment destroys your capacity to love. What is love? Love is sensitivity, love is consciousness.
What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn’t harden itself to any person or thing.
Love entails clarity of perception, objectivity; there is nothing so clear-sighted as love.
The heart in love remains soft and sensitive.
Loneliness is when you’re missing people, aloneness is when you’re enjoying yourself.
“If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.”
from Plato: “One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in prison.”
what prevents us from seeing? Our conditioning. Our concepts, our categories, our prejudices, our projections, the labels that we have drawn from our cultures and our past experiences.
When you are ignored or disapproved of, you experience a loneliness so unbearable that you crawl back to people and beg for the comforting drug called support and encouragement, reassurance.
To be with people is to live in tension. To be without them brings the agony of loneliness, because you miss them.
You need good, healthy nourishment. Learn to enjoy the solid food of life.
Good food, good wine, good water. Taste them. Lose your mind and come to your senses.
Good reading, when you enjoy a good book. Or a really good discussion, or thinking.
Most of them have lost their capacity for enjoyment.
They’ve got to have more and more expensive gadgets; they can’t enjoy the simple things of life. Then
If you really enjoy life and the simple pleasures of the senses, you’d be amazed.
We’re lost in our minds, in our ideas and ideals and so on, and its always go, go, go.
I’m satisfied with very little and I enjoy it intensely.
When you have enjoyed something intensely, you need very little. It’s
Slow down and taste and smell and hear, and let your senses come alive.
you’ll see the miracles that happen to you when your senses come unclogged. That is extremely important for the process of change.
People don’t live, most of you, you don’t live, you’re just keeping the body alive. That’s not life.
