Flowering of Love
“The flowering of love is meditation.”
“The flowering of love is meditation.”
“Order is virtue. And order isn’t a thing to be cultivated; you can’t say ‘I will be orderly’, ‘I will do this and I won’t do that’—then you are merely disciplining yourself, becoming more and more rigid, mechanical. Such a mind is totally incapable of coming upon this beauty that has no name, no expression.”
“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.”
“So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to escape from the present conflict to enter a condition in which there shall be no conflict; or whether you are unaware, unconscious of this conflict in which you exist. If you are unconscious of the conflict, that is, the battle that is taking place between that self and the environment, if you are unconscious of that battle, then why do you seek further remedies? Remain unconscious.”
“The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure.”