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To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

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When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

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Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

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Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

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Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.

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Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.

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We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

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Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

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As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on its own intrinsic value and not on the authority of my attainment, nor on the authority of others.

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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

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It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.

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In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love.

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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

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Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

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Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

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We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.

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The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.

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It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.

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Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

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Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. To completely empty the whole content of the mind — that is real freedom.

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