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“Don't follow me, I'm lost.” “The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.”

“If you are really handicapped, I wouldn’t advise you to do any such thing. But you are made to feel by other people that you are handicapped so that they could sell you those crutches. Throw them away and you can walk."

“Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.”

“You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.”

“Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.”

"There is no death for the body, only an exchange of atoms. Their changing places and taking different forms is what we call 'death.' It's a process which restores the energy level in nature that has gone down. In reality, nothing is born and nothing is dead."

“I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize -- that's the realization I am talking about. It comes as a shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt."

"You have invested everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize -- and you say to yourself "What the hell have I been doing all my life?!""

"Questioning your actions before and after creates the moral problem. Life is action. Unquestioned action is morality. Questioning your action destroys the expression of life. A person who lets life act in its own way without the protctive movemnt of thought has no self 2 defend"

"Wanting to be free from something that is not there is what you call "sorrow.” Wanting to be free from sorrow is sorrow. There is no other sorrow. You don't want to be free from sorrow. You just think about sorrow, without acting."

"Your thinking endlessly about being free from sorrow is only more material for sorrow. Thinking does not put an end to sorrow. Sorrow is there for you as long as you think. There is actually no sorrow there to be free from."

"As long as you are not at peace with yourself, it is not possible for you to be at peace with others."

"“The very motivation, the drive behind our demand to understand the laws of nature is to use them for the purpose of continuing the human species at the expense of every other form of life on this planet.”"

“understanding is the absence of the demand for understanding -- now or tomorrow.” “freedom exists not in finding answers, but in the dissolution of all questions.”

"Each cell of a living organism cooperates with the cell next to it. It does not need any sentiment or declarations of undying love to do so. Each cell is wise enough to know that if its neighbour goes, it also goes."

"Soon we will all come to know one simple thing: if I try to destroy you, I will also be destroyed."

"The demand to be prepared for all future actions and all situations is the cause of our problems. Every situation is so different; and our attempt to be prepared for all those situations is the one that is responsible for our not being able to deal with situations as they arise"

"The Romans watched that fun with great joy. How are we different from them? Not a bit. We love it. To kill and to be killed is the foundation of our culture.”

“The body is not interested in your perceptions. It is not interested in learning anything from you or knowing anything from you. All the intelligence that is necessary for this living organism is already there."

"You can't say that falling bombs are an illusion. It is not an illusion, only your experience of it is an illusion."

"You are not satisfied with your own religious teachings or games; so you bring in others from India, Asia or China. They become interesting because they are new. You pick up a new language and try to speak it and use it to feel more important. But basically it is the same thing"

"In fact, you don't want to be free from fear. ... Fear is the very thing that you do not want to be free from. What you call “yourself” is fear. The “you” is born out of fear; it lives in fear, functions in fear and dies in fear.”

“When once we are freed from the goal [of solving problems], the question of whether it is a positive approach or a negative approach does not even arise.”