"To be religious is to be sensitive to reality."
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"I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter."
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"Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following."
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"There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action."
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"As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison."
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"Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally."
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"Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end."
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"It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark."
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"Conflict is not in the feeling of being in love. The feeling of being in love is utterly without conflict. There is no loss of energy in being in love."
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"If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part."
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"You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it."
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"To live humanly, sanely, one has to change."
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"It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy."
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"You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique."
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"Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals at all. We are the result of thousands of years of human experience, human endeavor and struggle."
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"Wherever there is a suitable environment for the fulfilment of Life, it will fulfil itself."
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"Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern."
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"To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear."
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"Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation."
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"It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand or three hundred. I am like an artist who paints a picture because he must, otherwise he is unhappy - not unhappy, but he must obey that creative impulse."
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