"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation."
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"Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed."
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"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."
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"Truth is more in the process than in the result."
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"Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability."
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"Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy."
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"When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass."
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"So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business."
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"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all."
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"If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have."
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"The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt."
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"Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of it. It isn't something you learn, a technique, and therefore there is no authority. Therefore if you will learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy. If you are aware of it without any choice, all that is part of meditation, and as you go, as you journey, as that movement goes, all that movement is meditation. Then that movement is endless, timeless."
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"To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it."
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"One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end."
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"Most people like to live in illusions."
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"It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love."
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"If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact."
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"What you believe you experience."
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"And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are."
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"Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously."
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