Daily Quote Archives
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October 01 Loneliness is the awareness of complete isolation; and are not our activities self-enclosing?
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October 02 For the speaker attachment is much more important than detachment.
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October 03 The self, the "me," is a network of complex desires, each desire having its own impetus and aim, often in opposition to other hopes and pursuits.
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October 04 What is insight? It is: to perceive something instantly, which must be true, logical, sane, rational.
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October 05 To go beyond the self-enclosing activities of the mind, you must understand them;
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October 06 Conflict and confusion result from our own wrong relationship with people, things and ideas
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October 07 Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
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October 08 Personally, to the speaker, there is no psychological evolution;
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October 09 It is the fear of being nothing that compels us to accumulate;
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October 10 You think you are the center of this beautiful earth.
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October 11 Do you not feel that the darkness is closing in, deterioration is setting in fast in every human being?
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October 12 Liberation of action does not mean that you cannot remember incidents, but those past incidents will no longer control action.
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October 13 From the beginning we must be very clear that you are not being told what to do, or what to think.
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October 14 Criticism is only of value in so far as it trains your observation so that it can eventually be turned on yourself.
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October 15 You can never know what the unknown is because the moment you recognise it as the unknown you are back in the known.
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October 16 Is anonymity degrading, and to be unknown despicable? Why do we pursue the famous, the popular?
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October 17 What I have to say is fundamentally simple, and not very philosophical, metaphysical or complicated.
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October 18 You have only one head, care for it, don't destroy it. It's so easy to poison it.
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October 19 Is it possible not to think about pleasure or pain? Is it possible to think only when thought is demanded, but not otherwise?
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October 20 It is only in knowing ourselves first - deeply, profoundly, not superficially - that we can know truth.
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October 21 We want to build castles in the air, find a refuge where we shall never be disturbed, where our petty minds will never be shaken.
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October 22 The present social struggle to bring about equality on the economic or some spiritual level has no meaning at all.
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October 23 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.
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October 24 Love does not compare, and so the envy and torture of 'becoming' cease.
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October 25 Pleasure goes with fear. I don't know if you have watched it. It's the other side of the coin.
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October 26 When you lose your relationship with nature and the vast heavens, you lose your relationship with man.
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October 27 Man has invented heaven out of hope, for his life has become a hell, an endless conflict from birth to death, coming and going, making money, working endlessly.
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October 28 Any action born of noise produces more noise, more confusion.