Daily Quote Archives

November 2024
  1. November 01 A mind that is indifferent, is aware of the shoddiness of our civilization, the shoddiness of our thought, the ugly relationships;
  2. November 02 Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
  3. November 03 We have reduced the vastness of all this to some petty little reactions.
  4. November 04 Thought is the very denial of love, and it cannot enter into that space where the me is not.
  5. November 05 Loneliness is the awareness of complete isolation; and are not our activities self-enclosing?
  6. November 06 We never see the world as a whole because we are so fragmented, we are so terribly limited, so petty
  7. November 07 Freedom is not possible if there is any form of outward or inward compulsion.
  8. November 08 From the known you cannot possibly see the unknown;
  9. November 09 Doubt is an extraordinarily important thing, not scepticism.
  10. November 10 if there is constant perception of beauty without the accumulation of memories, then there is the possibility of joy everlasting.
  11. November 11 Is it possible not to think about pleasure or pain? Is it possible to think only when thought is demanded, but not otherwise?
  12. November 12 You see man imprisoned by innumerable walls, walls of religion, of social, political and national limitations, walls created by his own ambitions, aspirations, fears, hopes, security, prejudices, hate and love.
  13. November 13 Can there be honesty - that is, clear insight, seeing things as they are - if there is a principle, an ideal, an ennobled formula?
  14. November 14 From the beginning we must be very clear that you are not being told what to do, or what to think.
  15. November 15 We want to build castles in the air, find a refuge where we shall never be disturbed, where our petty minds will never be shaken.
  16. November 16 It is only that truth that liberates, and nothing else. That is why you must stand completely alone.
  17. November 17 Is anonymity degrading, and to be unknown despicable? Why do we pursue the famous, the popular?
  18. November 18 To me, what I am saying is not brilliant: it is the obvious.
  19. November 19 Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative.
  20. November 20 It is the fear of being nothing that compels us to accumulate;
  21. November 21 The shallow are ever afraid of what they are; but what they are is the truth.
  22. November 22 Why have we created psychological time?
  23. November 23 Any action born of noise produces more noise, more confusion.
  24. November 24 Liberation of action does not mean that you cannot remember incidents, but those past incidents will no longer control action.
  25. November 25 What I have to say is fundamentally simple, and not very philosophical, metaphysical or complicated.
  26. November 26 Man has invented heaven out of hope, for his life has become a hell, an endless conflict from birth to death, coming and going, making money, working endlessly.
  27. November 27 Sensation and dissatisfaction are inseparable, for the desire for more binds them together.
  28. November 28 Pleasure goes with fear. I don't know if you have watched it. It's the other side of the coin.
  29. November 29 What is the relationship of attention to inattention, and to awareness?
  30. November 30 It is only in knowing ourselves first - deeply, profoundly, not superficially - that we can know truth.