If The Mind Could Cease Measuring Itself

We Are Empty Shells If We Do Not Possess, If We Do Not Fill Our Life With Furniture, With Music, With Knowledge, With This Or That. And That Shell Makes A Lot Of Noise, And That Noise We Call Living, And With That We Are Satisfied.

The Word 'innocence' Means 'incapable Of Being Hurt'. To Have A Mind That Is Not Capable Of Being Hurt, Does Not Mean That It Has Built Up A Lot Of Resistance - On The Contrary, Such A Mind Is Dying To Everything That It Has Known In Which There Has Been Conflict, Pleasure And Pain. Only Then Is The Mind Innocent; That Means It Can Love. You Cannot Love With Memory, Love Is Not A Matter Of Remembrance, Of Time.

If You Wish To Produce A Perfect Rose, You Must Cut Off The Other Buds Which Are Spoiling The Growth Of The Perfect Flower.

Can Another Help Bring About A Transformation In You? If He Can, You Are Not Transformed; You Are Merely Dominated, Influenced.

Meditation Is Not A Means To An End. It Is Both The Means And The End.