Tag:  Isolation

• How can that essence of resistance, which is the me, how can that be completely `let go'? September 06, 2009

  There is so much to do in the world, to wipe away poverty, to live happily, to live with delight instead of with agony and fear, to build a totally different kind of society, a morality which is ab...

• It is only the righteous man that develops his will as a means of resistance, and a man of will can never find truth, because he is never free. November 27, 2009

  Virtue is freedom, it is not a process of enclosure. It is only in freedom that truth can come into being. Therefore, it is essential to be virtuous, not righteous, because virtue brings order. It ...

• To go beyond the self-enclosing activities of the mind, you must understand them; December 01, 2009

  That is why it is important, as I said, to understand the process, the ways of our own thinking. Self-knowledge cannot be gathered through anybody, through any book, through any confession, psychol...

• Can thought realize that whatever it does is limited, fragmented and therefore isolating and that whatever it does will be thus? July 17, 2010

  Now the problem is: can thought realize that whatever it does is limited, fragmented and therefore isolating and that whatever it does will be thus? This is a very important point: can thought itse...

• We are related to someone only as long as that relationship gratifies us, as long as it gives us a refuge, as long as it satisfies us. July 23, 2010

  If we examine our life, our relationship with another, we will see that it is a process of isolation. We are really not concerned with another; though we talk a great deal about it, actually we are...

• There is a strange despair in anger; for isolation is despair. May 14, 2011

  Anger has that peculiar quality of isolation; like sorrow, it cuts one off, and for the time being, at least, all relationship comes to an end. Anger has the temporary strength and vitality of the ...