The First Thing To Realize In Meditation

You Only Learn When You Give Your Whole Being To Something. When You Give Your Whole Being To Mathematics,you Learn; But When You Are In A State Of Contradiction, When You Do Not Want To Learn But Are Forced To Learn, Then It Becomes Merely A Process Of Accumulation. To Learn Is Like Reading A Novel With Innumerable Characters; It Requires Your Full Attention, Not Contradictory Attention.

The Ambitious Man Has Never Found His True Vocation.

I Should Say That All Compromise Is A "stepping Down" Of The Truth, Is Trying To Reduce Something Which Cannot Be Reduced, And That For Anyone Who Has Understood Life These Compromises Are Impossible.

You Say You Love Your Wife. You Depend On Her; She Has Given You Her Body, Her Emotions, Her Encouragement, A Certain Feeling Of Security And Well-being. Then She Turns Away From You; She Gets Bored Or Goes Off With Someone Else, And Your Whole Emotional Balance Is Destroyed, And This Disturbance, Which You Don't Like, Is Called Jealousy. There Is Pain In It, Anxiety, Hate And Violence. So What You Are Really Saying Is, 'as Long As You Belong To Me I Love You But The Moment You Don't I Begin To Hate You.

Discipline Does Not Mean Suppression And Control, Nor Is It Adjustment To A Pattern Or Ideology. It Means A Mind That Sees 'what Is' And Learns From 'what Was'.