Bring a full heart and an inquiring mind

“For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life?” - Matthew 16:26

Observe how many actions of yours are performed?m, how many actions engaged in that are uncontaminated by the desire for thrills, excitements that only produce emptiness, the desire for attention, approval, fame, popularity, success or power

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them

Your programming is so strong and the pressure of society so intense that you are literally trapped into perceiving the world in this distorted kind of way

There is not a single moment in your life when you do not have everything that you need to be happy

The reason why you are unhappy is because you are focusing on what you do not have rather than on what you have right now

What makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and the people around you, but the thinking in your head

The fulfillment of desire can, at the most, bring flashes of pleasure and excitement. Don’t mistake that for happiness

What you give up violently you are forever bound to

It was your parents, your society, your culture, your religion, your past experiences who fed the operating instructions into your computer

“If a man wants to sue you for your shirt, let him have your coat as well. Of a man in authority makes you go one mile, go with him two.”

Society and culture taught you to believe you will not be happy without certain persons and certain things

I am not really attached to you at all. I am merely deluding myself into the belief that without you I will not be happy

An attachment isn’t a fact. It is a belief, a fantasy in your head, acquires through programming. If that fantasy did not exist inside your head, you would not be attached You would love things and persons and you would enjoy them themselves as fully but, lacking the belief, you would enjoy them on a non attachment basis

You are already happy right now. Your mind is the one creating unhappiness all the time

Attachment is the one and only thing that causes unhappiness

I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking

Love can only exist in freedom

Am I in charge of this situation or if this situation in charge of me?

There are people in the world who, if they were in your place, would not be negatively affected by this person. They would be in charge of the situation, above it, not subject to it as you are. Therefore, your negative feelings are caused, not by this person, as you mistakenly think, but by your programming

Who ever did evil in awareness? The ability to do evil or to be evil is not freedom but a sickness for it implies a lack of consciousness and sensitivity

Love excludes no one; it embraces the whole of life; it listens to the symphony as a whole, not to just one or the other of the musical instruments

Life is infinitely greater than this trifle your heart is attached to and which you have given the power to so upset you

No thing or person outside of you has the power to make you happy or unhappy

Very rare is the human being who hears the music. They are busy listening to the noises that their conditioning and programming have put into their heads

If you hold on to an idea about someone, then you no longer love that person but your idea of that person

Contemplate the walls, spend hours just observing your ideas, your habits, your attachments and your fears without any judgement and condemnation. Look at them and they will crumble

Spend some time observing this things and people around you. Look as if for the very first time

Sit down quietly and observe how your mind functions. There is a steady flow of thoughts and feelings there

The unaware life is not worth living

What you call the experience of happiness is not happiness at all but the excitement and thrill caused by some person or thing or event. True happiness is uncaused

If you desire happiness you will be anxious lest you do not attain it

There are two sources for change within you. One is the cunningness of our ego that pushes you into making efforts to become something other than you are meant to be so that it can give itself a boost, so it can glorify itself. The other is the wisdom of Nature. You leave this change to Reality and to Nature and are just aware of it

Your ego is a great technician. It cannot be creative. It produces people who are rigid, consistent, mechanical, lifeless, as intolerant of others as they are of themselves

You will be a creator, not a wily technician when there is abandonment in you—no greed, no ambition, no anxiety, no sense of striving, gaining, arriving, attaining. All there is, is a keen, alert, penetrating, vigilant awareness that causes the dissolution of all one’s foolishness and selfishness, all ones attachments and fears

Take a look at some of those problems of yours, those changes you desire in yourself, and observe your way of going about it. See how you attempt to bring about change—both in yourself and in others—through the use of punishment and reward, through discipline and control, through sermonizing and guilt, through greed and pride, ambition and vanity, rather than through loving acceptance and patience, painstaking understanding and vigilant awareness

The animal in its natural habitat is never overweight, never tense except before fight or flight. It never eats or drinks what is not good for it. It has all the rest and exercise that it needs. The animal listens to its body and allows itself to be guided by the body’s wisdom

The rose has a gift that you lack: it is perfectly content to be itself. It has not been programmed from birth, as you have been, to be dissatisfied with itself, so it has not the slightest urge to be anything other than it is. That is why it possesses the artless grave and absence of inner conflict that among humans is only found in little children and mystics

You are always dissatisfied with yourself, always wanting to change yourself. So you are full of violence and self-tolerance which only grows with every effort that you make to change yourself. So any change you achieve is always accompanied by inner conflict. And you suffer when you see others achieve what you have not and become what you are not

Supposed you desisted from all efforts to change yourself, and from all self-dissatisfaction, would you them be doomed to go to sleep having passively accepted everything in you and around you?

Self understanding. To understand what you are requires complete freedom from all desire to change what you are into something else

You must cultivate activities that you love. You must discover work that you do, not got its utility, but for itself, whether it succeeds or not, whether you are praised for it or not, whether people know about it and are grateful to you for it or not

You must break loose from your inward dependence on people by becoming aware of it and by engaging in activities that you love to do for themselves

Put aside your books and formulas; dare to abandon your teacher whoever your teacher may be and see things for yourself. Dare to look at everything around you without fear and without formula and it won’t be long before you see

Children have innocence: a lovely inability to lie or wear a mask or pretend to be anything other than what it is. A child is exactly like the rest of nature

Only the adult human being is able to be one thing and pretend to be another

Observe the marvelous change that comes over you the moment you stop seeing people as good or bad, as saints and sinners and begin to see them as unaware and ignorant. You must drop your false belief that people can sin in awareness. Sin occurs, not in malice, but in ignorance

To love means to be sensitive to life, to things, to people, to feel for everything and everyone to the exclusion of nothing and no one

As soon as you have a belief you have come to a conclusion about a person or situation or thing. You have now become fixed and have dropped your sensitivity. You are prejudiced and will see the person from the eye of that prejudice

Renounce nothing, cling to nothing, enjoy everything and allow it to pass, to flow

The society we live in is infected with attachment to the core. For if anyone is attached to power, money, property, to fame and success; if anyone seeks these things as if their happiness depends on them, they will be considered productive members of society, dynamic and hardworking

The cause of my irritation is not in this person but in me

The reason why this persons defects or so-called defects annoy you is that you have them yourself

Irritation will only cloud your perception and make your action less effective

Most people never see the wonder kid marvel of this unique human being here on from of them. They see their idea which is a barrier to the perception of reality

Judgement is another barrier to the perception of reality

Love springs from awareness. It is only inasmuch as you see someone as he or she really is here and now and not as they are in your memory or your desire or in your imagination or projection that you can truly love them, otherwise it is not the person that you love but the idea that you have formed of this person, or this person as the object of your desire not as he or she is in themselves

The act of seeing is love

What prevents you from seeing? Your concepts, your categories, your prejudices and projections, your needs and attachments, the labels you have drawn from your conditioning and from your past experiences

Seeing calls for a disciplined, alert mind

Familiarity breeds staleness, blindness, and boredom. You cannot love what you cannot see afresh. You cannot love what you are not constantly discovering anew

You must become aware of three things: you must see the suffering that this drug is causing you, the ups and downs, the thrills, the anxieties and disappointments, the boredom to which is must inevitably lead, you must realize what this drug is cheating you out of, namely, the freedom to love and to enjoy every minute and everything in life, you must understand how, because of your addiction and your programming, you have invested the object of your attachment with a beauty and a value it simply does not have

Happy events make life delightful but they do not lead to self discovery and growth and freedom. That privilege is reserved to the things and persons and situations that cause us pain

If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; for they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future. So they are spared that guilt and the anxiety that so torment human beings and they are full of sheer joy of living, taking delight not so much in persons or things as in life itself. As long as your happiness is caused or sustained by something or someone outside of you, you are still in the land of the dead

One person feels quite secure with practically no money in the bank, another feels insecure even though he has millions. It isn’t the amount of money but their programming that makes the difference

It is futile to ease your insecurity feelings by trying to change things outside of you

This programming of yours was picked up from insecure people who, when you were very young and impressionable, taught you by their behavior and their panic reactions that every time the outside world did not conform to a certain pattern, you must create an emotional turmoil within yourself called insecurity

In non-clinging is the willingness to flow and to enjoy and to taste and to relish each new moment of life which is now made all the sweeter because it is freed from the anxiety and tension and insecurity, freed from the fear of loss and death that always accompanied the desire for permanence and clinging

Clear thinking will save the world

Clear thinking does not call for any great learning. It is so simple as to be within the reach of a child. What is needed is not learning but unlearning, not talent but courage

The child has as yet no beliefs and no prejudices. This is the environment within which clear thinking can occur. And to achieve it one must drop everything one has learned and achieve the mind of the child that is innocent of past experiences and programming which so cloud our way of looking at reality

In order to find truth we need, not doctrinal formulations, but a heart that divests itself of its programming and its self interest each time that thinking is in progress; a heart that has nothing to protect and owes nothing to ambition and therefore leaves the mind to roam unfettered, fearless and free, in search of truth; a hear that is ever ready to accept new evidence and to change its views

Awareness is a delight, the delight of a little child moving out in wonder to discover the world. For even when awareness uncovers unpleasant things in you, it always bring liberation and joy. Then you will know that the unaware life is not worth living, it is too full of darkness and pain

Awareness is an effortless journey