Religion as it exists is not religion at all. August 06, 2009
The word 'religion', the root of it, has not been established. I think from observing and looking into various dictionaries, it really means gathering together all energy to find out the truth. I...
Religion, surely, is the uncovering of reality. Religion is not belief. August 07, 2009
Religion, surely, is the uncovering of reality. Religion is not belief. Religion is not the search for truth. The search for truth is merely the fulfilment of belief. Religion is the understand...
Religion, surely, is the uncovering of reality. Religion is not belief. Religion is not the search for truth. September 10, 2009
Religion, surely, is the uncovering of reality. Religion is not belief. Religion is not the search for truth. The search for truth is merely the fulfilment of belief. Religion is the understand...
Religion as it exists is not religion at all. September 17, 2009
The word 'religion', the root of it, has not been established. I think from observing and looking into various dictionaries, it really means gathering together all energy to find out the truth. I t...
Breaking through is not a matter of time. October 07, 2009
... the religious man is he who, through self-knowledge, begins to discover his conditioning and to break through it; and the breaking through is not a matter of time.
The worship of authority, whether in big or little things, is evil, the more so in religious matters. October 25, 2009
Exclusive, private knowledge offers deeply satisfying pleasure. To know something that others do not know is a constant source of satisfaction; it gives one the feeling of being in touch with deepe...
Let us for a moment, imaginatively at least, look over the world from a point of view which will reveal the inner workings and the outer workings of man, his creations and his battles; and if you c...
From my point of view, religions with all their intermediaries, their ceremonies, their priests, destroy creative understanding and pervert judgment. November 08, 2009
Some of you are seeking physical security through wealth, comfort, and the power over others that wealth gives you; you are interested in social differences and social privileges that assure you of...
Self-knowledge is not a conclusion, an end; it has no beginning and no end. November 23, 2009
Questioner: I have been told that you do not read any philosophical or religious literature. I can hardly credit this, as when I listen to you I realize that you must have read, or have, some secre...
Truth is truth, one, alone; it has no sides, no paths; all paths do not lead to truth. November 24, 2009
Truth is truth, one, alone; it has no sides, no paths; all paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you. Truth can come to you only when your mind and heart are sim...
Mere reformation of the pattern of society only alters the surface, it brings about a more respectable form of ambition. December 03, 2009
Society is not changed by example. Society may reform itself, it may bring about certain changes through political or economic revolution, but only the religious man can create a fundamental transf...
For me, revolution is synonymous with religion. I do not mean by the word 'revolution' immediate economic or social change; I mean a revolution in consciousness itself. All other forms of revolutio...
The religious mind isn't the mind that believes, that goes to church every day, or once a week; it isn't the mind that has a creed, that is bound by dogmas and superstitions. The religious mind is ...
Man has always sought something beyond the physical existence. He has always searched, asked, suffered, tortured himself, to find out if there is something which is not of time, which is not of tho...
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