"Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education."
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"Life behind all form is one, the expressions of that life are not of very great importance."
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"To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy."
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"I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies."
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"You can look only when the mind is completely quiet."
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"As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be."
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"To bring about a fundamental, radical revolution, we must begin with ourselves."
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"The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear."
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"Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?"
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"Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?"
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"Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course."
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"Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious."
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"Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery."
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"When I said that I am the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority or inferiority. I added that phrase 'and more' very carefully, because I knew that people had a very limited understanding of the Buddha and the Christ, and hence if I said: 'I am the Christ, the Buddha', they would limit that Reality to their own conceptions of the Buddha or the Christ, and Life has no limit."
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"Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path."
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"What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre."
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"All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society."
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"Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking."
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"To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward."
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"A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free."
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