the truth

After one is given a prescription . . . or after he begins to follow a prescription . . . his allegiance, his focus, his attention, his intent is centered upon the prescription. Not upon the thing he is trying to attain.

Your real résumé is just a catalog of all your suffering.

You might ask, What would I do if I had no likes or dislikes? You would take life as it comes. You would experience it. And because you would not be taking sides, you would enjoy it immensely. Please understand this: When you have likes and dislikes, you have a desire for one thing and an aversion for another. This is a deep and painful imprisonmen

Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come. A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight brings it on prematurely. No one confines his unhappiness to the present.

‘What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend.’ That is progress indeed. Such a person will never be alone, and you may be sure he is a friend of all.

Failure is largely a myth, my student. For anything that is pursued with Sincerity does not fail. And anything that is pursued with hope always fails. My failures were not a failure to achieve. My failures were a failure of cultivating Sincerity before embarking upon The Great Journey.

If you merely escape mental pain and confusion with drugs, entertainment, sex, busy-ness, the painful problem is still there, compounded with exhaustion and addiction.

Life has never had any meaning. The meaning that one finds in life is the meaning he ascribes to it.

So, to find out an action which is not based on idea, concept and formula you must listen to the whole of that structure, see, understand that whole structure completely, and in the very understanding of it you have turned away from it. And therefore your mind then is in a state of negation, not bitterness, not cynicism, but because it sees the fut