Daily Quote Archives

December 2024
  1. December 01 The present social struggle to bring about equality on the economic or some spiritual level has no meaning at all.
  2. December 02 The essence of control is suppression.
  3. December 03 The self, the "me," is a network of complex desires, each desire having its own impetus and aim, often in opposition to other hopes and pursuits.
  4. December 04 Can thought have a stop?
  5. December 05 Personally, to the speaker, there is no psychological evolution;
  6. December 06 There must be a total attention, in which there is no sentiment at all, no emotion.
  7. December 07 When one makes an effort to be good, decides to be good, in that very goodness is its opposite, which is evil.
  8. December 08 The division between the living and dying is not miles apart, it is together.
  9. December 09 When you lose your relationship with nature and the vast heavens, you lose your relationship with man.
  10. December 10 What is insight? It is: to perceive something instantly, which must be true, logical, sane, rational.
  11. December 11 Criticism is only of value in so far as it trains your observation so that it can eventually be turned on yourself.
  12. December 12 You can never know what the unknown is because the moment you recognise it as the unknown you are back in the known.
  13. December 13 Can the mind live, be vital, energetic, full of depth, without attachment? Of course it can.
  14. December 14 The negation of all values, of all morality, of all beliefs, having no frontiers, cannot be in opposition to anything.
  15. December 15 You think you are the center of this beautiful earth.
  16. December 16 Meditation is seeing the constant touching the ever-changing movement of life.
  17. December 17 A mind that has the power of concentration, that says it has complete control over thought, is a stupid mind.
  18. December 18 Why do we want an attitude? What does attitude mean?
  19. December 19 For me, revolution is synonymous with religion. I do not mean by the word 'revolution' immediate economic or social change; I mean a revolution in consciousness itself.
  20. December 20 Evolution implies time; but psychologically, inwardly, is there evolution?
  21. December 21 There is a vast difference between a preoccupied mind and an active mind.
  22. December 22 Philosophy means love of truth, not love of thought.
  23. December 23 You cannot brush the past aside. It is there.
  24. December 24 When we say, 'I see that I must not condemn', what do we mean by that word 'see'?
  25. December 25 For the speaker attachment is much more important than detachment.
  26. December 26 The mind of the "me', in all its self-centred activity has created this emptiness, this isolation.
  27. December 27 Death isn't some horrific thing, something to be avoided, something to be postponed, but rather something to be with day in and day out.
  28. December 28 Can one see that the whole movement of this illusory memory, which appears so real, can end?
  29. December 29 At all times, and especially now, there is need for transformation through vital experience;
  30. December 30 Your business, your religion, your gods, your leaders, your political and economic actions, your escapes, your social activities, your joining one party and rejecting another - all that is emphasizing and giving strength to the 'me'.
  31. December 31 Sir, what is your idea of a new world?