All the below interesting quotes are from JK's Mind without Measure!
When we are confused, uncertain, insecure, we try to find a solution in the past, we go back to our traditions.
Where there is conditioning there is no freedom, there cannot be love, there cannot be affection.
The brain has the capacity to create images. The images are the illusions we have.
Thinking is a nature of man; it is not your thinking or my thinking.
When I am observing, learning, inquiring into the fact, there is no conflict.
Do you know what it means to love another? Have you ever loved anybody? Is love dependence?
Why is it that all religions, all so-called religious people have suppressed desire?
You have to approach fear very simply, the trunk and the root of fear, not the branches.
So we are asking if there is another kind of instrument which is not thought.
Your sorrow is the sorrow of mankind, the sorrow of all human beings.
Without love, the sense of compassion, the flame of it, the intelligence of it, life has very little meaning.
A mind in conflict, a brain in struggle, cannot possibly meditate.
Is your brain programmed to think in a conventional, narrow, limited way?
Choice is not freedom. Choice is merely moving in the same field, from one corner to another.
They may meet sexually, talk together, care somewhat, have children, but they remain separate.
We must inquire into what knowledge is, what place knowledge has in our relationship with each other.
In the greater, the lesser disappears. In the greater humanity, the little human problems are solved.
Can there be a gap between sensation and thought impinging upon that sensation?
We never look at what is. We want to change what is taking place into something else.
What is the cause of sorrow, which is pain, tears, a sense of desperate loneliness?
It is much more important to understand what happens before death rather than what happens after death.
Your consciousness is not yours; it is shared by all human beings living on this Earth.
Meditation is not the practice of any system because when you practice a system, your brain becomes atrophied.
We are saying that thought is responsible for all the misery in the world.
So if thought is not the instrument to solve human problems, what then is the instrument?
We must have a brain that is constantly inquiring, questioning, doubting.
When you are attached to anything, there is always fear in it, the fear of losing it.
Find out yourself what is the cause of conflict by which man has lived from time immemorial.
Patience is timeless. It is only impatience that has time.
Is it possible to end violence or greed or what you will immediately, end the whole of violence?
At that moment when thought takes charge of sensation, at that precise moment, desire is born.
In every house there is this shadow of sorrow. There is a sudden ending.
It is that intelligence that moves the Earth and the heavens and the stars because that is compassion.
In meditation there is no control because the controller is controlled.
If we have problems, they obviously act as friction and wear out the brain, and we get old and so on.
The body never says, 'I am'; the body never says, 'I am something special.'
If you say, 'Tell me how to end thought', then you make a problem of it.
All power is evil, ugly, whether it is the power of the wife over the husband or the power of governments.
When you are facing facts, you have to be totally humble, not cultivate humility.
What does that love mean? Is it based on reward and punishment?
We must begin very near to go very far. The near is what we are.
Compassion is not the product of thought. Love cannot exist in the shadow of thought.
There is the sorrow of a man who has everything and yet nothing.
What is going to happen to us when the computer can do almost everything that we do?
But if you see the reality, the truth, that you are the rest of mankind, then what is death?
Meditation is the understanding of the whole structure of the 'me', the self, the ego.
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