Every Ceremony Or Rite Has A Value

A Man Must First Of All Understand Certain Things. He Has Thousands Of False Ideas And False Conceptions, Chiefly About Himself, And He Must Get Rid Of Some Of Them Before Beginning To Acquire Anything New. Otherwise The New Will Be Built On A Wrong Foundation And The Result Will Be Worse Than Before. To Speak The Truth Is The Most Difficult Thing In The World; One Must Study A Great Deal And For A Long Time In Order To Speak The Truth. The Wish Alone Is Not Enough. To Speak The Truth One Must Know What The Truth Is And What A Lie Is, And First Of All In Oneself. And This Nobody Wants To Know.

It Is Very Difficult Also To Sacrifice One's Suffering. A Man Will Renounce Any Pleasures You Like But He Will Not Give Up His Suffering.

Life Is Real Only Then, When "i Am".

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.

A Considerable Percentage Of The People We Meet On The Street Are People Who Are Empty Inside, That Is, They Are Actually Already Dead. It Is Fortunate For Us That We Do Not See And Do Not Know It. If We Knew What A Number Of People Are Actually Dead And What A Number Of These Dead People Govern Our Lives, We Should Go Mad With Horror.