- Forget all you know about yourself; forget all you have ever thought about yourself; start as if you know nothing.
- You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.
- To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.
- Only the mind that is not occupied with desire can understand desire.
- To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.
- Its religions do not make a religious man.
- Without self-knowledge, the god that you seek is the god of illusion; and illusion inevitably brings conflict and sorrow.
- A confident man is a dead human being.
- Be simple … and don’t try to become something or to capture some experience.
- Have you ever tried to look at a person, a flower, at an idea, an emotion, without any choice, any judgment?
- Truth can come to you only when your mind and heart are simple, clear, and there is love in your heart; not if your heart is filled with the things of the mind.
- Ambitious men and women do not know what love is, and we are dominated by ambitious people. That is why there is no happiness in the world, and why it is very important that you, as you grow up, should see and understand all this, and find out for yourself if it is possible to discover what love is. You may have a good position, a very fine house, a marvellous garden, clothes; you may become the prime minister; but without love, none of these things has any meaning.
- The people who are sensitive in life may suffer much more than those who are insensitive; but if they understand and go beyond their suffering they will discover extraordinary things.
- When death comes, it does not ask your permission; it comes and takes you, it destroys you on the spot.
- Without freedom from conditioning, humanity will always remain a prisoner and life will remain a battlefield.
- Love is not hate, nor jealousy, nor ambition, nor the competitive spirit with its fear of failure. It is not the love of God nor the love of man—which again is a division. Love is not of the one or of the many. When there is love it is personal and impersonal, with and without an object. It is like the perfume of a flower; one or many can smell it: what matters is the perfume, not to whom it belongs.
- Freedom is to look at a fact without any idea, to look without thought.
- God hasn’t created all this misery, has he? If he has, he must be an odd god, a sadist god.
- Love will arise in your heart when you have no barrier between yourself and another, when you meet and observe people without judging them.
- Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something – and it is only such love that can know freedom.
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