"Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering."
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"To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought."
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"As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery."
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"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem."
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"Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'."
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"To keep always in the same place means to stagnate."
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"To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time."
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"To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it."
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"The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens."
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"We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied."
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"Intuition is the only true guide in life."
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"In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding."
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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had it; and, because we do not know how to judge anything, we have been led here and pushed there, beaten up, driven, politically, religiously and socially. We don't know, but it is difficult to say we don't know."
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"Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love."
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"Living is not this tawdry, mediocre, disciplined thing which we call our existence. Living is something entirely different; it is abundantly rich, timelessly changing, and as long as we don't understand that eternal movement, our lives are bound to have very little meaning."
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"To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality."
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"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it."
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"We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."
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"The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery."
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"Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it."
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