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"We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation."
"Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced."
"To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found."
"If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?"
"[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens."
"If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour."
"You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is."
"What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists."
"The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless."
"If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower."
"Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind."
"But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation."
"Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself."
"Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought."
"Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?"
"Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter."
"It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or agreement which causes us to work together, but an extraordinary feeling of togetherness, the sense of joy in being and doing together without any thought of reward or punishment."
"Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there."
"Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?"
"Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation."