Surely, love is not a thing of the mind. It is because the things of the mind have filled our hearts that we have no love. The things of the mind are jealousy, envy, ambition, the desire to be somebody, to achieve success.

Fear comes into being when there is division between the thinker and his thought; when there is no thinker, then only is there no conflict in thought.

the man who has accumulated money or knowledge can never know love, because he lives with the things of the mind;

So for most of us, life is a process of isolation, of denial, resistance, conformity to a pattern; and naturally in that process there is no life, and therefore there is a sense of emptiness, a sense of frustration.

Sex has its place, but when the mind gives it the predominant place, then it becomes a problem.

Whereas if we can understand fear, go into it fully step by step, explore the whole content of it, then fear will never return in any form—and that is what I hope we can do now.

his activities are of the mind, and whatever he touches he makes into a problem, a confusion, a misery.

Now, what are we afraid of? Are we afraid of a fact, or of an idea about the fact? Please see this point.

Thought is the storing up of that incident or that pain or that suffering or that thing that gave delight.