Daily Quote Archives

October 2024
  1. October 01 It is futile to waste time over what another is thinking, or what you imagine he is thinking -
  2. October 02 Is there such a thing as transformation? What is it to be transformed?
  3. October 03 You cannot repeat truth, because truth is never constant.
  4. October 04 Religion, surely, is the uncovering of reality. Religion is not belief. Religion is not the search for truth.
  5. October 05 Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion.
  6. October 06 When you observe without accumulation, then there is no judgement.
  7. October 07 It is essential to deny thought as remembrance, pleasant or unpleasant, every minute of the day as it arises.
  8. October 08 Surely it must be possible to function in a sexual relationship with someone you love without the nightmare which usually follows.
  9. October 09 This conflict and struggle, this travail and battle with oneself and with one's neighbour, is it necessary for existence, for living?
  10. October 10 I wonder how many of you are vitally conscious of this conflict in the battlefield of the mind.
  11. October 11 What happens when the 'thinker' sees that he is the thought - which he is - that the experiencer is the experience?
  12. October 12 From my point of view, religions with all their intermediaries, their ceremonies, their priests, destroy creative understanding and pervert judgment.
  13. October 13 We are talking at the psychological level, not at the technological level.
  14. October 14 To be open is to listen, not only to yourself, but to every influence, to every movement about you.
  15. October 15 Thinking and feeling, without a search for a reward, a result, is true experiment, isn't it?
  16. October 16 The earth and everything upon it became holy.
  17. October 17 Is it not one of our difficulties, perhaps the major difficulty, that our minds have become so extraordinarily shallow?
  18. October 18 Why do we give such deep significance and meaning to the unconscious? - for after all, it is as trivial as the conscious.
  19. October 19 Comfort is one thing, and truth another; they lead away from each other.
  20. October 20 Life itself has no system, for it is always in movement;
  21. October 21 Religions, with their beliefs, dogmas and creeds, have become tremendous barriers between human beings, dividing man against man, limiting him and destroying his intelligence.
  22. October 22 To go beyond the self-enclosing activities of the mind, you must understand them;
  23. October 23 Conflict and confusion result from our own wrong relationship with people, things and ideas
  24. October 24 To have self-knowledge is to know the ways of your mind, to be aware of its subtleties, with all their implications;
  25. October 25 Can you look without the movement of the mind?
  26. October 26 The craving for experience is the beginning of illusion.
  27. October 27 In the confusion and turmoil of life, in its continual bustle and conflict, every individual is caught.
  28. October 28 Truth is truth, one, alone; it has no sides, no paths; all paths do not lead to truth.
  29. October 29 Criticism is only of value in so far as it trains your observation so that it can eventually be turned on yourself.
  30. October 30 Do you not feel that the darkness is closing in, deterioration is setting in fast in every human being?
  31. October 31 I think there is an art to listening.