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"The craving for more is the beginning of conflict and misery."
Commentaries on Living, First Series, p.73 |
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"...why this constant craving for more and more and more? This craving indicates that we are
dissatisfied, discontented; but with what? With what we are? I am this, I do not like it, and I
want to be that...I am dissatisfied with what I am, and I think I can escape from my discontent
by acquiring more clothes, more power, and so on. But this dissatisfaction is still there, is it not?
So we have to find out how to understand what we are. Merely to cover ourselves with possessions, with power and position, has no meaning, because we will still be unhappy. Seeing this, the unhappy person, the person who is in sorrow, does not run away to gurus, he does not hide in possessions, in power; on the contrary, he wants to know what lies behind his sorrow. If you go behind your own sorrow, you will find that you are very small, empty, limited, and that you are struggling to achieve, to become. This very struggle to achieve, to become something, is the cause of sorrow. But if you begin to understand what you actually are, go deeper and deeper into it, then you will find something quite different takes place." On Love and Loneliness, p.102-103 |
