Occupation: Philosopher Birth: September 14, 1895 Death: January 5, 1986
Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom..
Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!.
The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant..
Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real..
The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego..
A man who is seeking for realization is not only going around searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on his nose all the time, ….
Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!.
What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave your self behind..
We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one..
Never forget, what your looking for is what is looking..
The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is ….
We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief..
Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand..
Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent, Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself - And there isn’t one..
We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived..
THIS which is seeking is THAT which is sought, and THAT which is sought is THIS which is seeking..
There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious..
It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are..
What is your trouble? Mistaken identity..
All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept..
In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt..