Page: 4 waking people up to the reality of their greatness.
Page: 8 The point is that most of what we feel and think we conjure up for ourselves in our heads, including this business of being helped by people.
Page: 10 “You are my happiness. If I don’t get you, I refuse to be happy.”
Page: 11 awake, which is the same thing as saying: if we want to love, if we want freedom, if we want joy and peace and spirituality.
Page: 12 They’ve got to suffer enough in a relationship before they wake up and say, “I’m sick of it! There must be a better way of living than depending on another human being.”
Page: 12 It’s only when you’re sick of your sickness that you’ll get out of it.
Page: 15 You’re always getting something out of everything you do, until you wake up.
Page: 15 When you fight something, you’re tied to it forever. As long as you’re fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it.
Page: 16 When you renounce something, you’re tied to it.
Page: 16 Don’t renounce it, see through it.
Page: 16 Understand its true value and you won’t need to renounce it; it will just drop from your hands.
Page: 17 Truth is never expressed in words. Truth is sighted suddenly, as a result of a certain attitude.
Page: 17 So I can speak to you, not of the truth, but of obstacles to the truth. Those I can describe.
Page: 18 An openness to the truth, no matter what the consequences, no matter where it leads you and when you don’t even know where it’s
Page: 18 going to lead you.
Page: 18 Your beliefs give you a lot of security, but faith is insecurity.
Page: 19 two types of selfishness. The first type is the one where I give myself the pleasure of pleasing myself.
Page: 19 The second is when I give myself the pleasure of pleasing others. That would be a more refined kind of selfishness.
Page: 23 I’m saying that ordinarily everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.
Page: 24 give myself the pleasure of pleasing myself;
Page: 24 give myself the pleasure of pleasing others.
Page: 24 third type, which is the worst: when you do something good so that you won’t get a bad feeling.
Page: 26 But we don’t want to do the hurting ourselves because we’ll get hurt!
Page: 27 The first test of whether you’ve been brainwashed and have introjected convictions and beliefs occurs the moment they’re attacked.
Page: 27 It’s not easy to listen, especially when you get emotional about an idea.
Page: 28 you’re always listening from your programming, from your conditioning, from your hypnotic state.
Page: 28 The one thing you need most of all is the readiness to learn something new.
Page: 29 The first reaction is one of fear. It’s not that we fear
Page: 29 the unknown. You cannot fear something that you do not know. Nobody is afraid of the unknown. What you really fear is the loss of the known. That’s what you fear.
Page: 31 Expect the worst, you’re dealing with selfish people.
Page: 32 Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them.
Page: 33 When you’re ready to exchange your illusions for reality, when you’re ready to exchange your dreams for facts, that’s the way you find it all.
Page: 35 What do you want to hope for? Isn’t that another form of desire?
Page: 35 Why not concentrate on the now instead of hoping for better times in the future?
Page: 35 The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
Page: 37 They really don’t. This is a great illumination. They need to be understood. If you understood them, they’d change.
Page: 37 When you say of someone, “He’s a communist,” understanding has stopped at that moment. You slapped a label on him.
Page: 38 Because if you desire to change what is into what you think should be, you no longer understand.
Page: 40 Any time you’re in love—I hesitate to say this—you’re being particularly asinine. Sit down and watch what’s happening to you. You’re running away from yourself. You want to escape.
Page: 41 If you ever let yourself feel good when people tell you that you’re O.K., you are preparing yourself to feel bad when they tell you you’re not good.
Page: 41 cut out all the judgments and simply observe, watch.
Page: 43 Eternal means timeless—no time.
Page: 44 Like the little girl who says to a little boy, “Are you a Presbyterian?” And he says, “No, we belong to another abomination!”
Page: 45 You think you are free, but there probably isn’t a gesture, a thought, an emotion, an attitude, a belief in you that isn’t coming from someone else.
Page: 45 It’s going to take a lot of awareness for you to understand that perhaps this thing you call “I” is simply a conglomeration of your past experiences, of your conditioning and programming.
Page: 47 some of these mystics tell us that we begin first with things, with an awareness of things; then we move on to an awareness of thoughts (that’s the “me”); and finally we get to awareness of the thinker.
Page: 49 We spend so much of our lives reacting to labels, our own and others’.
Page: 50 Think of anything that caused or is causing you pain or worry or anxiety. First, can you pick up the desire under that suffering, that there’s something you desire very keenly or else you wouldn’t be suffering.
Page: 50 All suffering is caused by my identifying myself with something, whether that something is within me or outside of
Page: 50 me.
Page: 51 Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you’re living in an illusion. There’s something seriously wrong with you. You’re not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? “He is to blame, she is to blame. She’s got to change.” No! The world’s all right. The one who has to change is you.
Page: 52 when negative feelings come in, you go blind.
Page: 52 when you so identify with “me” that there’s too much of “me” in it for you to see things objectively, with detachment.
Page: 53 We never feel grief when we lose something that we have allowed to be free, that we have never attempted to possess. Grief is a sign that I made my happiness depend on this thing or person, at least to some extent.
Page: 54 Perfect love casts out fear.
Page: 54 Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency.
Page: 54 What I really enjoy is not you; it’s something that’s greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered, a kind of symphony, a kind of orchestra that plays one melody in your presence,
Page: 55 Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
Page: 55 You can only know what aloneness is when you drop your clinging, when you drop your dependency.
Page: 55 Think of the loneliness that is yours. Would human company ever take it away? It will only serve as a distraction. There’s an emptiness inside, isn’t there? And when the emptiness surfaces, what do you do? You run away, turn on the television, turn on the radio, read a book, search for human company, seek entertainment, seek distraction. Everybody does that. It’s big business nowadays, an organized industry to distract us and entertain us.
Page: 56 That’s what it is to watch yourself. No one can show you how to do it, because he would be giving you a technique, he would be programming you. But watch yourself. When you talk to someone, are you aware of it or are you simply identifying with it? When you got angry with somebody, were you aware that you were angry or were you simply
Page: 56 identifying with your anger? Later, when you had the time, did you study your experience and attempt to understand it? Where did it come from? What brought it on? I don’t know of any other way to awareness. You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You don’t change. But when you understand it, it changes.
Page: 58 You fear no one because you’re perfectly content to be nobody.
Page: 58 they react less and act more.
Page: 59 When you’re living for nothing, you’ve got all your skills, you’ve got all your energy, you’re relaxed, you don’t care, it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose.
Page: 59 three most difficult things for a human being
Page: 59 returning love for hate;
Page: 59 including the excluded;
Page: 59 admitting that you are wrong.”
Page: 60 How can I make it last? That’s not happiness, that’s addiction.
Page: 60 I wonder how many nonaddicts there are reading this book? If you’re anything like the average group, there are few, very few. Don’t look down your nose at the alcoholics and the drug addicts: maybe you’re just as addicted as they are.
Page: 61 Is it possible for the rose to say, “I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad”? Or is it possible for the lamp to say, “I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people”? Or can a tree say, “I’ll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad”? These are images of what love is about.
Page: 61 so drowned in what our culture calls love with its love songs and poems—that isn’t love at all, that’s the opposite of love. That’s desire and control and possessiveness.
Page: 61 That’s manipulation, and fear, and anxiety—that’s not love.
Page: 61 There’s only one reason why you’re not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it’s because you’re thinking or focusing on what you don’t have.
Page: 61 But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.
Page: 62 love and fear are the only two things.
Page: 62 It’s only when you’re afraid that you become angry.
Page: 63 Call it awareness, call it love, call it spirituality or freedom or awakening or whatever. It really is the same thing.
Page: 65 much more pleased by your loving than by your adoration.”
Page: 65 transformed into a loving person
Page: 66 When worship becomes more important than love,
Page: 66 When God becomes more important than the neighbor.
Page: 67 Be aware of what you’re saying, be aware of what you’re doing, be aware of what you’re thinking, be aware of how you’re acting. Be aware of where you’re coming from, what
Page: 67 your motives are.
Page: 71 What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.
Page: 71 You are always a slave to what you’re not aware of. When you’re aware of it, you’re free from it. It’s there, but you’re not affected by it. You’re not controlled by it; you’re not enslaved by it. That’s the difference.
Page: 71 I’ll be reacting to you in all kinds of ways from my insecurities, from my need to manipulate you, from my desire to succeed, from irritations and feelings that I might not be aware
Page: 73 “Don’t seek the truth; just drop your opinions.”
Page: 73 If you drop your labels, you would know.
Page: 74 “If you’re suffering, you’re asleep.”
Page: 74 Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth,
Page: 74 When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering.
Page: 75 But if you refuse to identify with any of those labels, most of your worries cease.
Page: 76 They identified with some label. They identified the “I” with their money or their job or their profession. That was their error.
Page: 78 It’s only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. Do you know where these things come from? From having identified with all kinds of labels!
Page: 78 The first thing you need to do is get in touch with negative feelings that you’re not even aware of.
Page: 79 The second step (this is a four-step program) is to understand that the feeling is in you, not in reality.
Page: 80 Problems exist only in the human mind.
Page: 80 The third step: Never identify with that feeling.
Page: 80 Everything passes, everything.
Page: 80 If you seek kicks or thrills, get ready for depression. Do you want your drug? Get ready for the hangover.
Page: 81 You’re free; you don’t care anymore about being accepted or rejected, that makes no difference.
Page: 81 What you need is to be free. What you need is to love. That’s it; that’s your nature.
Page: 82 He doesn’t need you; he’s not threatened by your criticism; he doesn’t care what you think of him or what you say about him. He’s cut all those strings; he’s not a puppet any longer.
Page: 83 The fourth step:
Page: 83 The person who is asleep always thinks he’ll feel better if somebody else changes.
Page: 83 We always want someone else to change so that we will feel good.
Page: 86 reality is not problematic, you are the problem.
Page: 87 we’ve got to make sure that you’re not swinging into action simply to get rid of your negative feelings.
Page: 87 They’re not coming from love, they’re coming from negative feelings.
Page: 87 They’re coming from guilt, anger, hate; from a sense of injustice or whatever.
Page: 88 We see people and
Page: 88 things not as they are, but as we are. That is why when two people look at something or someone, you get two different reactions. We see things and people not as they are, but as we are.
Page: 89 But when you are different, they’ll be different. That’s an infallible and miraculous cure.
Page: 89 People are so busy accusing everyone else, blaming everyone else, blaming life, blaming society, blaming their neighbor. You’ll never change that way; you’ll continue in your nightmare, you’ll never wake up.
Page: 89 Put this program into action, a thousand times: (a) identify the negative feelings in you; (b) understand that they are in you, not in the world, not in external reality; (c) do not see them as an essential part of “I”; these things come
Page: 89 and go; (d) understand that when you change, everything changes.
Page: 90 Now, understand another thing, that you’re making a demand. You have an expectation of this person.
Page: 91 People get a good feeling on the basis of somebody getting a bad feeling; you win over somebody else. Isn’t that terrible? Taken for granted in a lunatic asylum!
Page: 93 In other words, I won’t allow you to manipulate me.
Page: 93 To say no to people—that’s wonderful; that’s part of waking up. Part of waking up is that you live your life as you see fit.
Page: 94 But as awareness grows, you react less and act more.
Page: 95 So begin to be aware of your present condition whatever that condition is. Stop being a dictator. Stop trying to push yourself somewhere. Then someday you will understand that simply by awareness you have already attained what you were pushing yourself toward.
Page: 96 It’s only when you become love—in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments—that you will “know.”
Page: 97 Why would anyone demand an apology? You have something to explore in that. Even when someone supposedly was mean to you, there is no room for apology.
Page: 97 Until people come awake, they are simply accepting or rejecting their image of you.
Page: 97 How easy it is to love everyone when you don’t identify with what they imagine you are or they are.
Page: 98 he really isn’t your child and he never was. He belongs to life, not to you.
Page: 98 When I talk about not having expectations of others, or not making demands on them, I mean expectations and demands for my well-being.
Page: 99 “Those who know, do not say; those who say, do not know.”
Page: 99 The guru can only point out your errors. When you drop your errors, you will know the truth.
Page: 101 The fanaticism of one sincere believer who thinks he knows causes more evil than the united efforts of two hundred rogues.
Page: 101 So the next day I notice that the two blind men are bashing each other over the head with bottles. One is saying, “It’s soft like music”; the other is saying, “It’s soft like satin.” And on it goes. Neither of them knows what they’re talking about, because if they did, they’d shut up.
Page: 102 There’s too little dropping of illusions, dropping of errors, dropping of attachments and cruelty, too little awareness.
Page: 103 What we’re seeing is something that we fixed in our mind. We get an impression and we hold on to that impression, and we keep looking at a person through that impression.
Page: 106 You thought you were the dancer; you now experience yourself as the dance.
Page: 106 When we talk about self-worth, are we not talking, really, about how we are reflected in the mirrors of other people’s minds? But do we need to depend on that?
Page: 106 I’m not beautiful because everyone says I’m beautiful. I’m really neither beautiful nor ugly. These are things that come and go.
Page: 106 Does the “I” really become beautiful? You need to give a lot of time to reflect on these things.
Page: 107 The disappointment you experience when things don’t turn out as you wanted them to, watch that! Look at what it says about you.
Page: 108 That worry, that anxiety, what does it say about you?
Page: 108 you get the state of wakefulness. This is the state where you drop desires.
Page: 108 But remember what I meant by desire and cravings. I meant: “Unless I get what I desire, I refuse to be happy.” I mean cases where happiness depends on the fulfillment of desire.
Page: 108 But don’t suppress desire, understand it. Understand it. Don’t seek to fulfill desire so much as to understand desire.
Page: 109 desire will then be transformed into what I call a preference.
Page: 109 you see things not as you are but as they are,
Page: 109 Reality provides the stimulus, you provide the reaction.
Page: 109 You have added something by your reaction. And if you examine what you have added, there is always an illusion there, there’s a demand, an expectation, a craving.
Page: 110 That doesn’t change you really, but most people spend all their energies trying to rearrange their exterior world to suit their tastes.
Page: 110 “The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.”
Page: 111 This is like feeding a racehorse with delicacies.
Page: 111 You need good, solid, nutritious food and drink. You need to understand all this for yourself.
Page: 112 Nobody can seek for you. And if what you seek is truth, then you must do this. You can lean on no one.
Page: 112 We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.
Page: 113 Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don’t. It’s you who give this power to them.
Page: 114 tasting every moment as you live it.
Page: 115 You need understanding, not condemnation.”
Page: 115 In order to get awareness, you’ve got to see, and you can’t see if you’re prejudiced.
Page: 116 Perception has devastating consequences in the matter of love and human relationships.
Page: 117 You’re more likely to respond accurately when you perceive clearly.
Page: 117 When true love enters, you no longer like or even dislike people in the ordinary sense of
Page: 118 I’ll see her after I marry her; that’s when the awakening comes!
Page: 118 Addiction is blind, attachments are blind. Clinging, craving, and desire are blind.
Page: 121 “The day you teach the child the name of the bird, the child will never see that bird again.”
Page: 121 If you don’t look at things through your concepts, you’ll never be bored.
Page: 122 A second quality of a concept is that it is static whereas reality is in flux.
Page: 122 The moment you put things into a concept, they stop flowing; they become static, dead.
Page: 122 reality is whole, but words and concepts fragment reality.
Page: 123 Ideas actually fragment the vision, intuition, or experience of reality as a whole.
Page: 123 To know reality you have to know beyond knowing.
Page: 125 “It never struck me that I had been an idol worshipper. My idol was not made of wood or metal; it was a mental idol.”
Page: 125 What will we see? This thing that we choose to call reality, whatever is beyond words and concepts.
Page: 126 We need to put off the old man, the old nature, the conditioned self, and return to the state of the child but without being a child.
Page: 126 But we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance of wonder renewed daily, the source of which is beyond all reason.”
Page: 127 via negativa,
Page: 129 Our great tragedy is that we know too much. We think we know, that is our tragedy; so we never discover.
Page: 130 abhor all national flags because they are idols.
Page: 130 I salute humanity, not a flag with an army around it.
Page: 131 No great merit in it if it’s mechanical.
Page: 132 Learn what it means to experience something fully, then drop it and move on to the next moment, uninfluenced by the previous one.
Page: 133 Now, this is what’s happening to us. From every pore or living cell of our bodies and from all our senses we are getting feedback from reality. But we are filtering things out constantly. Who’s doing the filtering? Our conditioning? Our culture? Our programming?
Page: 133 The way we were taught to see things and to experience them? Even our language can be a filter.
Page: 133 But there’s another demon, too, who’s doing the filtering. It’s called attachment, desire, craving.
Page: 133 Craving distorts and destroys perception. Fears and desires haunt us.
Page: 134 An attachment is a belief that without something you are not going to be happy.
Page: 135 They have much more than they need to live. Come to my country and you’ll see that. You don’t need all those cars to live. You don’t need a television set to live. You don’t need makeup to live. You don’t need all those clothes to live. But try to convince the average American of this. They’ve been brainwashed; they’ve been programmed.
Page: 135 “Until I get this object (money, friendship, anything) I’m not going to be happy; I’ve got to strive to get it and then when I’ve got it, I’ve got to strive to keep it. I get a temporary thrill. Oh, I’m so thrilled, I’ve got it!”
Page: 135 The truth about a thrill is that I get tired of it after a while.
Page: 136 The world, power, prestige, winning, success, honor, etc., are nonexistent things.
Page: 138 How liberating it is not to depend emotionally on anything.
Page: 139 attachments hurt rather than help relationships.
Page: 140 An attachment destroys your capacity to love.
Page: 140 A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn’t harden itself to any person or thing.
Page: 140 Love entails clarity of perception, objectivity; there is nothing so clear-sighted as love.
Page: 140 The heart in love remains soft and sensitive.
Page: 141 It’s a great thing to have suffered. Only then can you get sick of it.
Page: 141 Most people simply go on suffering.
Page: 141 Well, I made the great discovery that if you are angry, Mother, there’s something wrong with you.
Page: 142 Only a very aware person can refuse to pick up the guilt and anger, can say, “You’re having a tantrum. Too bad. I don’t feel the slightest desire to rescue you anymore, and I refuse to feel guilty.”
Page: 143 Words, words, words, words, how imprisoning they are if they’re not used properly.
Page: 145 Did you pick up the attachment there? Peace. Her attachment to peace and calm. She was saying, “Unless I’m peaceful, I won’t be happy.”
Page: 145 Step by step, let whatever happens happen.
Page: 146 “The day you cease to travel, you will have arrived.”
Page: 146 The moment you make a goal out of it and attempt to get it, you’re seeking ego glorification, ego promotion.
Page: 146 One of my difficulties here is to arouse your curiosity but not your spiritual greed.
Page: 147 You always empower the demons you fight.
Page: 147 How does one cope with evil? Not by fighting it but by understanding it.
Page: 147 You don’t chase darkness out of the room with a broom, you turn on a light.
Page: 147 When you renounce something, you’re tied to it.
Page: 148 As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology.
Page: 148 How happy we would be if terrorists would adore their ideology less and question more.
Page: 149 There’s no clinging, no anxiety, no fear, no hangover, no possessiveness, no demands.
Page: 150 How many people spend their lives not eating food but eating the menu? A menu is only an indication of something that’s available. You want to eat the steak, not the words.
Page: 150 The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.
Page: 150 It’s only when you’re afraid of life that you fear death.
Page: 150 It’s only dead people who fear death.
Page: 151 “A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it.”
Page: 152 Love can be very hard indeed.
Page: 156 awareness—you don’t need pushing. You don’t need effort. That’s why people are so tired,
Page: 159 When you cut water, the water doesn’t get hurt;
Page: 159 “If the eye is unobstructed, it results in sight; if the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing; if the nose is unobstructed, the result is a sense of smell; if the mouth is unobstructed, the result is a sense of taste; if the mind is unobstructed, the result is wisdom.”
Page: 160 Wisdom occurs when you drop barriers you have erected through your concepts and conditioning. Wisdom is not something acquired; wisdom is not experience; wisdom is not applying yesterday’s illusions to today’s problems.
Page: 160 “Frequently, in the life of a priest, fifty years’ experience is one year’s experience repeated fifty times.”
Page: 160 Wisdom is to be sensitive to this situation, to this person, uninfluenced by any carryover from the past, without residue from the experience of the past.
Page: 160 “If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.”
Page: 161 Plato: “One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in prison.”
Page: 161 freedom resides in the heart.
Page: 161 It means to see a person, a situation, a thing as it really is, not as you imagine it to be.
Page: 161 And what prevents us from seeing? Our conditioning. Our concepts, our categories, our prejudices, our projections, the labels that we have drawn from our cultures and our past experiences.
Page: 162 Now this is exactly what your society did to you when you were born. You were not allowed to enjoy the solid, nutritious food of life—namely, work, play, fun, laughter, the company of people, the pleasures of the senses and the mind. You were given a taste for the drug called approval, appreciation, attention.
Page: 162 Neill says that the sign of a sick child is that he is always hovering around his parents; he is interested in persons.
Page: 163 drug addictions: approval, attention, success, making it to the top, prestige, getting your name in the paper, power, being the boss.
Page: 163 So you became cravenly dependent on others and you lost your freedom.
Page: 163 A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
Page: 164 Will I get what I want from them, will I not get what I want from them?
Page: 164 And if they can neither support nor threaten my drug, I’m not interested in them.
Page: 164 Good food, good wine, good water. Taste them. Lose your mind and come to your senses. That’s good, healthy nourishment. The pleasures of the senses and the pleasures of the mind. Good reading, when you enjoy a good book. Or a really good discussion, or thinking. It’s marvelous.
Page: 165 Most of them have lost their capacity for enjoyment. I really believe that most people in affluent countries have lost that capacity.
Page: 165 We’re lost in our minds, in our ideas and ideals and so on, and its always go, go, go.
Page: 166 When you have enjoyed something intensely, you need very little.
Page: 166 But they’re taking pictures alright, and later they’ll show you pictures in an album, of places they never saw but only photographed.
Blue highlight | Page: 166 asceticism.
Page: 167 But in awareness, you keep your softness, your subtleness, your gentleness, your openness, your flexibility, and you don’t push, change occurs.
Page: 168 He calls it tasting and feeling the truth—not knowing it, but tasting and feeling it, getting a feel for it. When you get a feel for it you change. When you know it in your head, you don’t.
Page: 169 You’re not living until it doesn’t matter a tinker’s damn to you whether you live or die.
Page: 169 And if I can’t get you to peep out of your little narrow beliefs and convictions and look at another world, you’re dead, you’re completely dead; life has passed you by.
Page: 170 Life is for the gambler, it really is.
Page: 170 We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns,
Page: 170 our burdens.
Page: 172 If you wish to love, you must learn to see again. And if you wish to see, you must learn to give up your drug.
Page: 172 One no longer sees others as means of satisfying one’s addiction.
Page: 173 Think of a life in which you depend on no one emotionally, so that no one has the power to make you happy or miserable anymore.
Page: 173 see with a vision that is clear and unclouded by fear or desire.
Page: 173 To see at last with a vision that is clear and unclouded by fear or desire.
Page: 173 for to love persons means to die to the need for persons, and to be utterly alone.
Page: 176 you surrender to them.
Page: 176 aware of your desires and fears.
Page: 176 We must always beware of making worship just another distraction from the important business of living.
Page: 177 “The birds of the air … they neither toil nor spin”—
Page: 177 learning about love.
Page: 177 second thing—understanding.
Page: 177 don’t identify.
Page: 177 admit the feeling is in me, not in the other person,
Page: 178 Anything you’re aware of keeps changing; clouds keep moving.
Page: 179 people who have no quarrels, no jealousies, no conflicts, no wars, no enmities, none!
Page: 182 When a child feels loved (which means: when a child feels you’re on his side), he’s O.K. p
Page: 182 No fear, so no violence.
Page: 182 Do you know where wars come from? They come from projecting outside of us the conflict that is inside.
Page: 182 Show me an individual in whom there is no inner self-conflict and I’ll show you an individual in whom there is no violence.
Page: 183 religion known as freedom makes all people good, for it destroys the inner conflict
Page: 183 The root of evil is within you.
Page: 184 Lots of people live empty, soulless lives because they’re feeding themselves on popularity, appreciation, and praise, on “I’m O.K., you’re O.K.,” look at me, attend to me, support me, value me, on being the boss, on having power, on winning the race.