Muni's PlayThat is the only thing to do: to change completely, radically, immediately.
It is a waste of energy to follow anybody.
It is a waste of energy when we try to conform to a pattern.
You are the world and the world is you.
What we are, the world is.
I have to study myself in actuality – as I am, not as I wish to be.
Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t achieve, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
A living mind is a free mind, learning, never concluding.
To live in the eternal present there must be death to the past, to memory.
Analysis is paralysis.
What you learn from another is not true.
Nobody need tell you how to look. You just look.
Love, freedom, goodness and beauty are one, not separate.
It begins at school and you go through life repeating what others have said. You are therefore second-hand human beings.
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.
Truth is a pathless land.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
It is no use sitting in a corner meditating about myself. I cannot exist by myself. I exist only in relationship to people, things and ideas.
Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth.
Thought is never free because it is based on knowledge, and knowledge is always limited.
The thing you fight, you become.
Action born of hatred can only create further hatred.