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"Is it possible to live in this world without a belief - not change beliefs, but be entirely free
from all beliefs, so that one meets life anew each minute?"
The First and Last Freedom, p.57 |
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"When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim
or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you
see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of
mankind.
When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind." Freedom from the Known, p.51-52 |
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"We never give up all our beliefs; we never give up all the formulas, and the
things that we have learnt from books, and from teachers. We are never,
inwardly, at any moment simple. We are never, at any moment, not asking or not
seeking...Only when there is no Hinduism, no Islam, no Buddhism, no
Christianity, can there be peace..."
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"You can only find out if you deny totally all the present religious beliefs and ideas,
because it is only a free mind that can find out what is the quality of the religious mind."
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"If we had no pattern of action, based on belief - either in God, or in communism, or in
socialism, or in imperialism, or in some kind of religious formula, some dogma in which we are
conditioned - we should feel utterly lost, shouldn't we? And is not this acceptance of a
belief the covering up of that fear - the fear of being really nothing, of being empty?
To escape from that fear - that fear of emptiness, that fear of loneliness, that fear of stagnation, of not arriving, not succeeding, not achieving, not being something, not becoming something - is surely one of the reasons, is it not?, why we accept beliefs so eagerly and greedily. And through acceptance of belief, do we understand ourselves? On the contrary. A belief, religious or political, obviously hinders the understanding of ourselves. It acts as a screen through which we are looking at ourselves." The First and Last Freedom, p.58 |
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"Belief is a denial of truth, belief hinders truth; to believe in God is not to find God. Neither
the believer nor the non-believer will find God; because reality is the unknown, and your belief
or non-belief in the unknown is merely a self-projection and therefore not real."
The First and Last Freedom, p.205 |
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"You all believe in different ways, but your belief has no reality whatsoever. Reality is what you
are, what you do, what you think, and your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous,
stupid and cruel life.
Furthermore, belief invariably divides people: there is the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Christian, the communist, the socialist, the capitalist and so on. Belief, idea, divides; it never brings people together. You may bring a few people together in a group but that group is opposed to another group. ...Therefore your belief in God is really spreading misery in the world; though it may have brought you momentary consolation, in actuality it has brought you more misery and destruction in the form of wars, famines, class-divisions and the ruthless action of separate individuals." The First and Last Freedom, p.206-207 |
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"You can change your mind, your opinion, but truth or God is not a conviction: it is an experience
not based on any belief or dogma, or on any previous experience. If you have an experience born of
belief, your experience is the conditioned response of that belief."
Commentaries on Living, First Series, p.23 |
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"We feel we cannot act without belief, because it is belief that gives us something to
live for, to work for. To most of us, life has no meaning but that
which belief gives it; belief has greater significance than life. We
think that life must be lived in the pattern of belief; for without a
pattern of some kind, how can there be action?"
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