"If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbor - whether that neighbor is near or very far away - forget about meditation..."
Order in Relationship
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The Ecstasy of Truth
"The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence."
The Ending of the Me
"In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me."
Ideologies
"All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man."
The Strength of Patience and Love
"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...
The Whole of Life
"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life."
Freedom from Suffering
"And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering."
Listening
"So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it."
Sorrow
"Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfulness, explanations, and illusions."
Freedom from the Past
"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent."