“It is only through meditation that purity comes. Meditation means jumping out of the mind. There is no need to purify the mind, it can be put aside. One can become disidentified with the mind. To know "I am not the mind," is real purity because then you are only consciousness, awareness, a witnessing. To live twenty-four hours a day as a witness is the way of the sannyasin.” KnowsWayNeedsMindMeanRealHoursConsciousnessFourMeditationAwarenessTwentiesWitnessPurityJumping Author:Rajneesh
“In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use their language in the narrow sense of the mind. Something that goes even much further than that is not the appeal to logic and reason, but some kind of emotional awareness of the other people.” PeopleIfsWayMindKindReasonUseOrderCultureLanguageWishAwarenessEmotionalApproachLogicAppealsConvince Author:Jawaharlal Nehru
“There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.” MenWayMomentsCertainAnswersConsciousnessMysteryAwarenessGratitudeBuiltGrandeurCompatibleOwingReciprocateIndebtedness Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
“I teach: when pain is there, use it as awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, then use it as a drowning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself, totally.” IfsWaySoulUsePainRememberForgetPleasureMeditationAwarenessForgetfulnessForget YouSharpening Author:Rajneesh