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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
Awareness (1992)
The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that.
Awareness (1992)
"If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer."
One Minute Nonsense (1992)
The harder you try to change yourself the worse it gets. You are called upon to be aware.
Awareness (1992)
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
Awareness (1992)
History, after all, is the record of appearances, not Reality; of doctrines, not of Silence.
One Minute Nonsense (1992)
The apprentice did precisely what he thought he was told.
One Minute Nonsense (1992)
When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you.
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
God reveals himself in creation; but scrutinize creation as minutely as you wish, you will not find God, any more than you will find the soul through careful examination of your body.
Awakening : Conversations with the Masters (2003)
"Help us to find God."
"No one can help you there."
"Why not?"
"For the same reason that no one can help the fish to find the ocean."
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
"What is the secret of your serenity?
Said the Master "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."
One Minute Nonsense (1992)
The Master never ceased to attack the notions about God that people entertain.
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Eternal means timeless — no time. The human mind cannot understand that. The human mind can understand time and can deny time. What is timeless is beyond our comprehension.
Awareness (1992)
A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it.
One Minute Nonsense (1992)