"Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with."
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"After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?"
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"Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action."
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"If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is."
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"Learning is the very essence of humility . . ."
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"The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying. You are always a guest on this earth and have the austerity of a guest. Austerity is far deeper than owning only a few things. The very word austerity has been spoilt by the monks, by the sannyasis, by the hermits. Sitting on that high hill alone in the solitude of many things, many rocks and little animals and ants, that word has no meaning."
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"Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?"
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"A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder."
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"Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society."
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"Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances."
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"Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?"
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"Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?"
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"You say you love your wife. You depend on her; she has given you her body, her emotions, her encouragement, a certain feeling of security and well-being. Then she turns away from you; she gets bored or goes off with someone else, and your whole emotional balance is destroyed, and this disturbance, which you don't like, is called jealousy. There is pain in it, anxiety, hate and violence. So what you are really saying is, 'As long as you belong to me I love you but the moment you don't I begin to hate you."
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"Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?"
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"Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure."
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"I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence"
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"Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity."
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"Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future."
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"The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear."
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"Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire."
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