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"Freedom of life does not mean disorder of life, does not mean chaos, and just everyone doing anything he wants. That is not the freedom of life. The tree, when you give it a chance, protect it when it is young, will grow straight, because it has developed its own resistance; but the moment you make it delicate, then it gets crooked."
"Truth is a pathless land."
"Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination."
"Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?"
"I think one has to understand, not as a theory, not as a speculative, entertaining concept, but rather as an actual fact - that we are the world and the world is us. The world is each one of us; to feel that, to be really committed to it and to nothing else, brings about a feeling of great responsibility and an action that must not be fragmentary, but whole."
"And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness."
"Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief."
"Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not."
"And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are."
"Where there is fear there is aggression."
"The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be found from moment to moment, in the smile, in the tear, under the dead leaf, in the vagrant thought, in the fullness of love."
"Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts"
"You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.' I say: 'That's all nonsense. Do you behave? Are you free of fear? Are you free of ambition, greed, envy and the desire to achieve success in every field? If not, you are just playing a game. You are not serious.'"
"The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone."
"We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall."
"Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?"
"Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it."
"Is there a thinker apart from thought?"
"Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true."
"Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking."