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I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that person as a human being. I do not say "This is a man; this is a woman."

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But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.

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Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?

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Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

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All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

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You cannot explain to someone who comes with no idea of what you are talking about without being misunderstood.

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So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business.

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Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.

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I think one has to understand, not as a theory, not as a speculative, entertaining concept, but rather as an actual fact - that we are the world and the world is us. The world is each one of us; to feel that, to be really committed to it and to nothing else, brings about a feeling of great responsibility and an action that must not be fragmentary, but whole.

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Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.

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The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

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All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

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War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves, there are bound to be national and racial antagonisms, the childish quarreling over ideologies, the multiplication of soldiers, the saluting of flags, and all the many brutalities that go to create organized murder.

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Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.

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When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.

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We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

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When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

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Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

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