12 quotes
Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them.
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
Wonder is not a disease. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals.
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure — like the Pasteur serum for rabies.
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
The prevalent sensation of oneself as a separate ego enclosed in a bag of skin is a hallucination which accords neither with Western science nor with the experimental philosophy-religions of the East — in particular the central and germinal Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism.
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated "egos" inside bags of skin.
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)