"When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge."
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"All tradition is merely the past."
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"People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house.""
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"The Hindu, the Oriental, says that the physical is but the shadow of the Eternal, of the Truth; and he says 'In order to understand the Truth, I must let the shadow go, and not concern myself with it, but with the understanding of the Eternal.' So he does not concern himself with the physical. He is more concerned with the quality of mind and heart. Hence there is disease, there is disorder, and there is chaos and neglect and the gradual running down of the physical."
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"When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it."
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"Without knowing yourself, there is no peace."
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"Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary."
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"Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery."
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"Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In our relationships each of us builds an image about the other, and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves."
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"Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are."
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"One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be."
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"Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?"
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"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."
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"Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence."
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"The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is."
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"Freedom from something is not freedom."
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"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect."
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"Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it."
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"The flowering of love is meditation."
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"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."
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