To Come Upon Love Without Seeking It

To Be Free Of All Authority, Of Your Own And That Of Another, Is To Die To Everything Of Yesterday, So That Your Mind Is Always Fresh, Always Young, Innocent, Full Of Vigour And Passion. It Is Only In That State That One Learns And Observes. And For This, A Great Deal Of Awareness Is Required, Actual Awareness Of What Is Going On Inside Yourself, Without Correcting It Or Telling It What It Should Or Should Not Be, Because The Moment You Correct It You Have Established Another Authority, A Censor.

Only When The Mind Is Still, Tranquil, Not Expecting Or Grasping Or Resisting A Single Thing, Is It Possible To See What Is True. It Is The Truth That Liberates, Not Your Effort To Be Free.

Look At That Battle You Are Involved In; You Are Caught In It: You Are It.

A Cup Is Useful Only When It Is Empty; And A Mind That Is Filled With Beliefs, With Dogmas, With Assertions, With Quotations Is Really An Uncreative Mind.

A Man Who Says, 'i Want To Change, Tell Me How To', Seems Very Earnest, Very Serious, But He Is Not. He Wants An Authority Whom He Hopes Will Bring About Order In Himself. But Can Authority Ever Bring About Inward Order? Order Imposed From Without Must Always Breed Disorder.