Common Aim Is Stronger Than Blood.

We Must Strive For Freedom If We Strive For Self-knowledge. The Task Of Self-knowledge And Of Further Self-development Is Of Such Importance And Seriousness, It Demands Such Intensity Of Effort, That To Attempt It Any Old Way And Amongst Other Things Is Impossible. The Person Who Undertakes This Task Must Put It First In His Life, Which Is Not So Long That He Can Afford To Squander It On Trifles.

The First Thing, The Very Very First Thing, "find Out What Your Greatest Characteristic Is, Your Greatest Undoing, Your Central Characteristic Of Unconsciousness." Each One's Is Different. Somebody Is Sex-obsessed. In A Country Like India, Where For Centuries Sex Has Been Repressed, That Has Become Almost A Universal Characteristic; Everybody Is Obsessed With Sex. Somebody Is Obsessed With Anger, And Somebody Else Is Obsessed With Greed. You Have To Watch Which Is Your Basic Obsession.

Humanity Is Moving In A Circle. The Progress In Mechanical Things Of The Past Hundred Years Has Proceeded At The Cost Of Losing Many Other Things Which Perhaps Were Much More Important For It.

In Properly Organized Groups No Faith Is Required; What Is Required Is Simply A Little Trust And Even That Only For A Little While, For The Sooner A Man Begins To Verify All He Hears The Better It Is For Him.

You Can Never Awaken Using The Same System That Put You To Sleep In The First Place.