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Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.
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The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.
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There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.
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Thought shattering itself against its own nothingness is the explosion of meditation.
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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
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Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.
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Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?
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Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?
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When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.
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Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence.
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The world is me and I am the world.
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You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.
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Thought itself must deny itself. Thought itself sees what it is doing and therefore thought itself realizes that it has to come of itself to an end. There is no other factor than itself. Therefore when thought realizes that whatever it does, any movement that it makes, is disorder (we are taking that as an example) then there is silence.
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When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between 'what is' and 'what should be'.
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Meditation is a state of mind in which the operation and exercise of will is not.
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When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?
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Can thought be silent?
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Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?
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Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.
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What is correct action in a deteriorating world?
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In the denial of disorder there is order.
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Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?
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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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The individuality is the name, the form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and environment. The uniqueness of man does not lie in the superficial but in complete freedom from the content of his consciousness, which is common to all humanity.
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