"The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is."
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"The significance of life is living."
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"The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is."
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"It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end."
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"From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs."
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"Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both."
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"You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it."
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"It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don't have to do a thing."
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"Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion."
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"Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding."
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"While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally."
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"There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this."
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"When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it."
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"Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious divisions, and establish a global relationship - psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the outer - we shall go on with wars."
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"Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is... Matter and energy are interrelated."
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"There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free.""
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"Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you."
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"Do it or don't do it but get on with it."
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"Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace."
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"To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration."
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