"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Being Deeply Loved
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Covered With All Kinds of Bullshit
"Every child in its innocence knows, and every child goes astray because of so much knowledge being poured in by the parents, by the priests, by the teachers. Soon the child's innocence is completely covered with all kinds of bullshit."
Center of Your Being
"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
Authority
"All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question...
The Book of Yourself
"Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?"
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."
Total Development
"For the total development of the human being, solitude as a means of cultivating sensitivity becomes a necessity. One has to know what it means to be alone, what it is to meditate, what it is to die; and the implications of solitude, of meditation, of death, can be...
Desire for Freedom
"This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do...
A Peaceful Man
"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."
The Key is in Your Hand
"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."