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‘The greatest art is the art of living – not the paintings, the sculptures, the poems, the marvellous literature. That has its place, but to...
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What are you doing with your life? Can anyone show you the way, or must you be a light to yourself? Do we see the urgency of change? One of the greatest spiritual teachers and philosophers o...

‘The greatest art is the art of living – not the paintings, the sculptures, the poems, the marvellous literature. That has its place, but to...

‘Behaviour, conduct, is very important in life. And man has lived on this earth, I don't know how many millions of years, and yet he has not...

‘We are not talking about revolt but rather of a complete flowering of human goodness, which can alone produce a good, creative society.’ Th...

‘To communicate, you and I must be not only intense but meet at the same level, with the same intensity, at the same moment. Otherwise commu...

‘We want suffering to be diluted, alleviated, put away, explained away. But that doesn't help us to understand suffering.’ This episode on S...

‘It is one of the most marvellous things in life to discover something unexpectedly, spontaneously, without premeditation, without preparing...

‘You can only be spiritual when you destroy the social structure of your being, which is, the world in which you live, the world of ambition...

‘To perceive something holistically, that is to perceive without time, is to have a mind that is global – to see humanity as a whole.’ This...

‘There is the sense of inward frustration, the sense of hopeless despair without an end. Perhaps most people are not aware of it, or if they...

‘As long as science is the activity of a separate group or nation, which is tribal activity, such knowledge can only bring about greater con...

‘Only a mind that is vulnerable is capable of affection and love, not a mind that is jealous, possessive or dominating.’ This episode on Vul...

‘Trapped in this peculiar culture and civilisation, how am I to fundamentally change, and what is involved in this change?’ This episode on...

‘Religion means to live daily life in goodness – goodness being compassionate, kind, generous.’ This episode on Goodness & Generosity has fi...

‘Drugs don't alter your boredom, a drug doesn't end your sorrow. You may escape for the time being, but there is still sorrow.’ This episode...

‘Maturity comes not with age or having a degree. That is not maturity. Maturity is a state of mind and heart.’ This episode on Maturity has...

‘We need political, religious, social and psychological change, deep down at the very roots. How is this to be brought about, and where do w...

‘There is a stillness which is not dependent on anything. It is only that quality of stillness, that absolute silence of the mind that can s...

‘In the awakening of intelligence is the beginning of total happy security of human beings. Nowhere else will you have security except in th...

‘A heart that has no jealousy or envy, that knows no competition, that has no fear, that knows what it means to love – only such a heart and...

‘Organisations will never succeed in bringing about peace because human beings individually, collectively, nationally, are in conflict.’ Thi...

‘The really scientific mind and the really religious mind are the only two minds that can exist now, not the superstitious, believing, templ...

‘Without sensitivity there is no intelligence, and therefore no love. And where there is no love, there is no beauty.’ This episode on Sensi...

‘Thinking is mechanical; thinking can never be free. It can be reasonable, sane and logical, but thinking can never be free.’ This episode o...

‘The flowering of goodness can never take place when the mind is respectable, when the mind is conforming to a pattern – the social pattern,...

‘Thought is a material process, a movement. When there is no movement, there something totally original, totally untouched by humanity, unto...

‘The problem is you. The problem, the crisis, the challenge is in you, and you have to reply adequately. You are the world.’ This episode on...

‘What does it all mean, the existence that we lead? What is the meaning of all the work, misery, confusion, and this sense of meaningless ex...

‘Where there is compassion, there is supreme intelligence. Not the artificial intelligence of a computer, nor the artificial intelligence of...

‘The great painters, great musicians and great architects have extraordinary capacities and talent, but in their daily life they are like yo...

‘As long as the mechanical way of living continues, there must be degeneration of the human mind and heart, and in the society in which we l...

‘When there is grief, we try every form of escape, but it is always there. Apparently, humanity has not resolved grief.’ This episode on Gri...

‘There is no abstraction, there is only 'what is', there is only the seeing. And when you see, you act.’ This episode on Abstraction has thr...

‘We are incapable, so we look, we search, we find somebody to tell us what to do, and we put our faith in those people. But faith and trust...

‘Leisure is extraordinarily important – not to have a mind that is constantly occupied, constantly chattering. It is only in that unoccupied...

‘What prevents you from seeing is your condemnation and justification, which is the past. When you listen, when you see without condemnation...

‘Bliss is not pleasure; ecstasy is not brought about by thought; it is an entirely different thing. And you can only come upon that when you...

'Knowing is far more important than acquiring knowledge. Knowing means learning. Knowing is always in the present.’ This episode on Knowing...

‘We have divided time into yesterday, today and tomorrow, and hence we have invented the process of gradual achievement for freeing ourselve...

‘It is only the mind that is empty of what is false that can discover what is true.’ This episode on The False has four sections. The first...

‘Meditation is the emptying of the content of consciousness, which is consciousness. That is the meaning and the depth of meditation: the em...

‘Motives are based on pleasure – avoiding pain and holding onto pleasure. There is no other kind of motive.’ This episode on Motive has five...

‘Philosophers intellectually invent or reason out a meaning to life, and we generally accept such meaning because we have no meaning to our...

‘Liberation is not a form of snobbishness; it is there for anyone who will inquire into it. It is there with an ever-widening, deepening bea...

‘There can be security for mankind only if there is a global relationship, interrelationship economically and socially - a global relationsh...

‘There is no duality, only the fact. But when we want to get over the fact, we create duality.’ This week’s episode on Duality has four sect...

‘To inquire demands a mind that has set aside its opinions, its judgements, its evaluations and is capable of observing exactly what is, out...

‘Though concentration is necessary, meditation involves much more than concentration, or the control of thought.’ This week’s episode on Con...

‘The self is nothing but words and memories. So the self is the past. And to know oneself means to observe yourself.’ This week’s episode on...

‘Remaining totally in a state of not knowing, you have tremendous energy.’ This week’s episode on Not-knowing has five sections. The first e...

‘To find out correct action, right action, accurate action, there must be care.’ This week’s episode on Care has five sections. The first ex...