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Daily Quote Archives

December 2020
  1. December 01 When there is no naming, only then is it possible to be fully aware of that which is called the void of loneliness.
  2. December 02 Can I, when a feeling arises, observe it without naming it?
  3. December 03 Sir, what is your idea of a new world?
  4. December 04 You must be free of authority to find reality.
  5. December 05 You cannot perceive if you do not ask the right question - and a right question has no answer, because it needs no answer.
  6. December 06 Meditation is not tradition; it has nothing whatsoever to do with all that nonsense.
  7. December 07 Can one see that the whole movement of this illusory memory, which appears so real, can end?
  8. December 08 Man is a total process. The totality must be understood and not merely a part, however temporarily important this part may be.
  9. December 09 You are always a guest on this earth and have the austerity of a guest.
  10. December 10 When we say, 'I see that I must not condemn', what do we mean by that word 'see'?
  11. December 11 If relationship is based on mere usage, is there any relationship, except the most superficial, between the user and the used?
  12. December 12 In Asia they believe in reincarnation; that is, the believer is born over and over again until in time he becomes perfect.
  13. December 13 Creativeness is not a process of becoming or achieving, but a state of being in which self-seeking effort is totally absent.
  14. December 14 What can I do as a human being living in this chaotic misery, violence, and stupidity? What can I do?
  15. December 15 It is our earth, not yours or mine or his.
  16. December 16 Desire is a most extraordinary thing, is it not?
  17. December 17 The 'me' is created by thought and the 'me' says: "I am independent of thought".
  18. December 18 It seems to me, that is what we need - a different kind of energy, a passion which is not mere stimulation, which does not depend on, which is not put together by, thought.
  19. December 19 To be fully aware of the present is an extraordinarily difficult task because the mind is incapable of facing a fact directly without deception.
  20. December 20 One has to find out the meaning of living, not merely giving an intellectual significance to it, but looking at what it means to live.
  21. December 21 If you do not change now, you will never change, because the change that takes place tomorrow is merely a modification, it is not transformation.
  22. December 22 The mind is never free, pliable, for it is always anchored; it moves within the radius, narrow or wide, of its own centre.
  23. December 23 When there is love there is no duty and no responsibility.
  24. December 24 Man is the only animal that is to be dreaded.
  25. December 25 I have no belief and I have no tradition.
  26. December 26 In ourselves we are so petty, so essentially nothing, and the worship of something greater than ourselves is as petty and stupid as we are.
  27. December 27 When your own enquiry, your own vitality, energy, has not found out, you believe.
  28. December 28 You cannot find out what is true by assertion. You must sweep the slate completely clean of the known before you can find out.
  29. December 29 Your mind is conditioned right through; there is no part of you which is unconditioned.
  30. December 30 Meditation, along that quiet and deserted road came like a soft rain over the hills; it came as easily and naturally as the coming night.
  31. December 31 Sensitivity has no conditioning; it takes you right out of the field of fears and anxieties.