NaanYaar

because it is constantly living in the past, the past which is the system. When you say 'I am a Christian', or 'I am a Hindu', It is the past which speaks and cannot see anything new.

그러면 알게 되리라. 그대들에게 기쁨을 주었던 바로 그것이 그대들에게 슬픔을 주었음을. 그대들 슬플 때에도 가슴속을 다시 한 번 들여다보라. 그러면 그대들, 기쁨을 주었던 바로 그것 때문에 이제 울고 있음을 알게 되리라. 그대들 중의 어떤 이는 말한다. '기쁨은 슬픔보다 위대한 것이라네.' 그러나 또 어떤 이는 말한다. '아니, 슬픔이야말로 위대한 것.' 하지만 내 그대들에게 말하노라. 이들은 결코 떨어질 수 없는 것. 이들은 함께 오는 것, 한편이 홀로 그대들의 식탁 곁에 앉을 때면 그러므로 기억하라, 다른 한편은 그대들의 침대 위에서 잠들고 있음을. 진정 그대들은 기쁨과 슬픔 사이에 저울처럼 매달려 있다. 그러므로 오직 텅 비어 있을 때에만 그대들은 멈추어 균형을 이룬다. 보물지기가 자기의 금과 은을..

any kind - physically, psychologically, intellectually - is a waste of energy.

that there is a possibility of creation; but i do not mean this superficial emptiness which most of us have. Most of us are superficially empty, and it shows itself through the desire for distraction. We want to be amused, so we turn to books, to the radio, we run to lectures, to authorities; the mind is everlastingly filling itself. I am not talking of that emptiness which is thoughtlessness. O..

of country, the love of God, the love of fellow man,all that means absolutely nothing, it is just ideas. .

of people, racial and so on, is the result of our educationand of the influence of the society which we have built.

slavery to an idea, or in acceptance of a certain theology, or in conformingto a certain pattern set by society or by myself.

Most of us thrive on self-pity, blaming others, and this occupation doesn`t bring clarity.

We realize that life is ugly, painful, sorrowful; we want some kind of theory, some kind of speculation or satisfaction, some kind of doctrine, which will explain all this, and so we are caught in explanation, in words, in theories, and gradually, beliefs become deeply rooted and unshakable because behind those beliefs, behind those dogmas, there is the constant fear of the unknown. But we never..