Tag:  Struggle

• All our life is spent in struggle, and we think that struggle is a necessary part of existence. December 25, 2009

  It seems to me that it is important to understand that conflict of any kind does not produce creative thinking. Until we understand conflict and the nature of conflict, and what it is that one is i...

• To understand truly, the mind must be free from all sense of acquisition. December 27, 2010

  The discernment of values does not come through mere renunciation. A friend of mine said to me the other day: "I have given up ceremonies. I have given up societies, organizations, religions. I hav...

• When you understand the full significance of not desiring to gain, to accumulate, then there is no longer the struggle to get rid of something. March 24, 2011

  If there is [this] divine revolt in you, then you will understand when I say that life is not a school in which to learn; life is not a process of constant accumulation, a process in which there is...

• Life is not a thing from which you learn, it is meant to be lived - to be lived supremely, intelligently, divinely. May 27, 2011

  To me, life is not meant to be a school. Life is not a thing from which you learn, it is meant to be lived - to be lived supremely, intelligently, divinely. Whereas, if you make it into a constant ...

• There can be struggle only between two false things, conflict between the environment and the result of environment which is the "I". July 23, 2011

  Question: Surely you cannot mean what your words seem to convey. When I see vice rampant in the world, I feel an intense desire to fight against that vice and against all the suffering it creates i...

• When you perceive that what you thought was a snake in the grass is only a rope, you are no longer afraid, there is no longer a struggle, an overcoming. July 02, 2012

  If mind-heart is bound by fears, beliefs, which are so dominant, potent, overwhelming that they pervert clear perception, it is no good making great efforts to get rid of them. First you have to be...

• If thought-feeling is caught neither in disillusionment nor in comforting refuge then conflict will find the means of its own ending. September 25, 2013

  What happens when we are in conflict? In the struggle to overcome conflict we become disillusioned, we enter into darkness or, being in conflict, we try to find escapes in various forms. If thought...

• The moment of creation is not born of struggle. August 15, 2014

  First we must be free to see that joy and happiness do not come through effort. Is creation through effort or is there creation only with the cessation of effort? When do you write, paint or sing? ...

• A man who is truly content is the man who understands 'what is', gives the right significance to 'what is'. August 16, 2014

  ... we must very clearly understand this whole problem of struggle and strife. I know there are many, many ramifications, many different sides to it. But if we can understand the core of the proble...

• As long as the psychological strife and struggle and battle are not understood, and the psychological overtones and currents are not overcome, the structure of society, however marvellously built is bound to crash, as has happened over and over again. August 17, 2014

  ... effort is a strife or a struggle to transform that which is into something which you wish it to be. I am only talking about psychological struggle, not the struggle with a physical problem like...

• It is only when we are not aware of exactly 'what is', that we make the effort to transform it. August 19, 2014

  As I said last Sunday the stupid man is an unvirtuous man. He is disorderly. He creates havoc in society, not because he is unvirtuous but because he is stupid and to be virtuous requires the highe...