Daily Quote Archives
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May 01 It is far more important to look at the past as memory, and this we don't know how to do.
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May 02 One must be free of all the things that thought has invented about that which is considered religious.
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May 03 The power to create illusion is vastly more significant to understand than to understand reality.
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May 04 It is an extraordinarily dull mind that wants excitement, and goes outside itself to get it.
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May 05 We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.
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May 06 All compulsion, however subtle, is the outcome of ignorance; it is born of the desire for reward or the fear of punishment.
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May 07 To walk alone, unimpeded by thought, by the trail of our desires, is to go beyond the reaches of the mind.
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May 08 To escape collectively is the highest form of security.
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May 09 Belief implies accepting as true what we don't know.
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May 10 Freedom cannot be given; freedom is something that comes into being when you do not seek it;
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May 11 Every thought, every feeling, every action is conforming, conditioned, influenced.
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May 12 With love, there is no past. Love, and time is not.
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May 13 To control thought-feeling for a greater reward, for a greater result, is to make it petty, ignorant and sorrowful.
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May 14 Meditation is wandering away from this world; one has to be a total outsider.
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May 15 Are you aware, not theoretically but actually, that you are in conflict?
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May 16 Is death merely the ending of the physical organism?
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May 17 Every argument and gesture is the continuity of despair, sorrow and confusion. There is no end to it.
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May 18 Thought, however clever, however wide, however well-informed, is limited.
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May 19 Reason must exhaust itself, not by retreating, but through integral comprehension and love of life.
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May 20 Is silence to be cultivated, carefully nurtured and strengthened? And who is the cultivator? Is he different from the totality of your being?
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May 21 Intelligence does not offer shelter from the struggles and turmoils of life, nor does it give comfort; it only creates understanding.
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May 22 We live in a world of our own making.
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May 23 Where there is no anonymity there is violence, in all its different forms.
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May 24 Our difficulty is to make the mind revolve slowly so that each thought-feeling can be followed and understood.
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May 25 The relationship between what one is and what one desires to be causes fear.
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May 26 In spite of your emphatic denial of the need of a guru, are you not yourself a guru?
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May 27 We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality, violence, despair, anxiety.
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May 28 The poison and corruption begin when you look to one person as your authority, your guide, your saviour.
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May 29 That which is real will be known when the various forms of illusions have ceased.
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May 30 Awareness is the complete and unconditional surrender to what is, without rationalization, without the division of the observer and the observed.
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May 31 Our love is based on your image of me and my image of you.