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„Chodíte do kanceláře, nevím proč. Říkáte, že musíte, protože máte zodpovědnost, musíte vydělávat, podporovat rodinu. Nevím, proč byste museli cokoli dělat. Jste otroci, to je všechno.“

„Obáváme se nechat mysl ničím nezaměstnanou. Člověk by pak mohl přijít na to, jaký vlastně je.“

„Neexistuje zdravý způsob, jak se přizpůsobit hluboce nemocné společnosti.“

„Bez porozumění, co je potěšení, není možné ukončit utrpení.“

„Jste-li vězeň, není mým zájmem popisovat, co je svoboda. Mým zájmem je ukázat, co tvoří vězení, a vy jste je tak mohli prolomit.“

„Řád, vytvořený sledováním autority, plodí chaos… Nejhorší je tzv. duchovní autorita. Je jedním z hlavních tvůrců "řádu", protože rozdělila svět na různé druhy náboženství a ideologií.“

„Začněte žít a budete zde bez ptaní, bez hledání, bez strachu.“

„Člověk s materiálním bohatstvím, ani ten, který má bohaté znalosti a víru, nikdy nepozná nic jiného než tmu a bude šířit nepokoj a utrpení.“

„Je-li zde jakékoli potěšení, musí zde být i utrpení-jedno nemůže být bez druhého.“

„Velké štěstí spočívá v tom, že nechceme, že něco nejsme, že nikam nejdeme.“

„Navážete-li vztah se stromem, navážete jej s celým lidstvem.“

„Tomu, co je kladné, neporozumíme tak, že se to budeme snažit analyzovat, ale jedině tak, že pochopíme to, co je chybné.“

„Ctnostný člověk je spravedlivý a ten nikdy nemůže pochopit, co je to pravda.“

„Kdo chce nějakému faktu porozumět, nesmí od něj uhnout.“

„Zdá se mi, že největším kamenem úrazu v životě je neustálý boj, abychom něčeho dosáhli, něco získali, něco vlastnili.“

“Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?”

“Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?”

“When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.”

“Truth does not belong to an individual.”

“We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown.”

“If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.”

“Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?”

“Can thought be silent?”

“The answer is in the problem, not away from the problem. I go through the searching, analysing, dissecting process, in order to escape from the problem. But, if I do not escape from the problem and try to look at the problem without any fear or anxiety, if I merely look at the problem — mathematical, political, religious, or any other — and not look to an answer, then the problem will begin to tell me. Surely, this is what happens. We go through this process and eventually throw it aside because there is no way out of it. So, why can’t we start right from the beginning, that is, not seek an answer to a problem?”

“When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts, he will see the division between the thinker and thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past or of time. This timeless insight brings about a deep, radical mutation in the mind.”

“And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.”

“The real lessons of life are learned by recognizing and coming to terms with being human. It is how we stand up to failure and duress which really marks our progress in life. Sometimes one of the most important lessons is to learn to just let go of the past.”

“Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.”

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”

“You must understand the whole of life,
not just one little part of it.
that is why you must read,
that is why you must look at the skies,
that is why you must sing and dance,
and write poems and suffer and understand,
for all that is life.”

“The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.”

“The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement; you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.”

“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.”

“One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”

“Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.”

“Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”

“Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.”