|
"We must look at the mind as it is and not as it should be."
The First and Last Freedom, p.115 |
|
"The mind is a most superficial thing and we have spent generations, we spend our whole lives,
cultivating the mind, making it more and more clever, more and more subtle, more and more cunning,
more and more dishonest and crooked, all of which is apparent in every activity of our life. The
very nature of our mind is to be dishonest, crooked, incapable of facing facts, and that is the
thing which creates problems; that is the thing which is the problem itself."
The First and Last Freedom, p.228 |
|
"...contradiction cannot be bridged over by the mind, because the mind itself is a contradiction."
The First and Last Freedom, p.230 |
|
"The more you are aware of this whole process, the more you will discover the activities of the mind
but you must observe them without trying to put an end to them, because the moment you seek an end,
you are again caught in the duality of the 'me' and the 'not-me' - which continues the problem."
The First and Last Freedom, p.274 |
|
"You will inevitably ask, 'How can the mind be made still?' That is the immediate response, is it
not? You say, 'My mind is agitated and how can I keep it quiet?' Can any system make the mind quiet?
Can a formula, a discipline, make the mind still? It can; but when the mind is made still, is
that quietness, is that stillness? Or is the mind only enclosed within an idea, within a formula,
within a phrase? Such a mind is a dead mind, is it not? That is why most people who try to be
spiritual, so-called spiritual, are dead - because they have trained their minds to be quiet, they
have enclosed themselves within a formula for being quiet. Obviously, such a mind is never quiet;
it is only suppressed, held down."
The First and Last Freedom, p.277-278 |
|
"Our question, then, is not how to make the mind still but to see the truth of every problem as
it presents itself to us."
The First and Last Freedom, p.278 |
|
"Many who seek quietness of mind withdraw from active life to a village, to a monastery, to the
mountains, or they withdraw into ideas, enclose themselves in a belief or avoid people who give them
trouble. Such isolation is not stillness of mind."
The First and Last Freedom, p.278 |
|
"The mind must voluntarily lose all accumulative impulse, the storing up of experience as a
means to further experience and achievement. It is the accumulative, self-protective urge
that breeds the curve of time and prevents creative renewal."
Commentaries on Living, First Series, p.39 |
|
"The mind moves from the known to the known, and it cannot reach out into the unknown. You cannot
think of something you do not know; it is impossible."
Commentaries on Living, First Series, p.43 |
