“There are no roots of heaven in pleasure, there are only roots of indifference and pain.”

from Awakening of Intelligence

Chapters: 46. Enough

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“My consciousness is the world and the consciousness of the world is me.”

from Awakening of Intelligence

Chapters: 14. Finding and Following the Formless Form

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Chapters: 21. Following Empty Heart

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“Control in any form breeds distortion, conflict and an unhealthy mind.”

from Awakening of Intelligence

Chapters: 30. No War

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“Intelligence comes into being when the brain discovers its fallibility.”

from Awakening of Intelligence

Chapters: 65. Simplicity: the Hidden Power of Goodness

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“religious, political, personal… symbols, ideas, beliefs… are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man in every relationship.”

from Core of the Teaching

Chapters: 67. Three Treasures

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“Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past.”

from Core of the Teaching

Chapters: 11. Appreciating Emptiness

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“Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward.”

from Core of the Teaching

Chapters: 13. Honor and Disgrace

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“Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence.”

from Core of the Teaching

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“Truth is a pathless land, not a ready-made object that can be give to you by a religion or a guru. It has to be discovered.”

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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

Chapters: 18. The Sick Society

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“The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.”

Chapters: 2. The Wordless Teachings

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“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.”

Chapters: 28. Turning Back

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“We always want to alter the outer hoping thereby to change the inner…I think we miss this basic thing, which is; the world is me and I am the world.”

from Awakening of Intelligence

Chapters: 25. The Mother of All Things

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“One must have an extraordinary sense of energy which has no cause, which has no motive, which has the capacity to be utterly quiet, and this very quietness has its own explosive quality.”

from Awakening of Intelligence

Chapters: 57. Wu Wei

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“A man who knows that he is silent, or knows that he loves, doesn’t know what love is, nor what silence is.”

from Awakening of Intelligence

Chapters: 56. One with the Dust

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“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent… separating yourself from the rest of mankind.”

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“A person seeking to end violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party… they are only concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”

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“Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing.”

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“Throughout life, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.”

Chapters: 3. Weak Wishes, Strong Bones

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“The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.”

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“There is no end to education…the whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”

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“the world now with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression... still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive and a society that supports this… How very important it is to bring about in the human mind a radical revolution.”

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“You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.”

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“All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking… which has so unfortunately divided humanity.”

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“Meditation isn't something you learn, a technique; you cannot possibly learn from anybody and therefore there is no authority.”

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“Fear withers the mind, distorts thought, and leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.”

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“The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.”

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“the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.”

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“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence”

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“we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in… there is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.”

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“As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead.”

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“You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a good job, but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid?”

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“a person who seeks truth will never find it… a person who struggles cannot understand”

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“If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.”

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“Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.”

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“Religion is the frozen thought of mankind out of which they build temples.”

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“You can only be afraid of what you think you know.”

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“The problem goes much deeper than religion or politics, it starts in our minds, in our habits, in the constant conditioning that has gone on and on for centuries. Judging, prejudice, likes and dislike are all part of this same problem.”

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“Deception arises when I want, when I am greedy, when I say, 'All experience is hollow, I want something mysterious'—then I am caught.”

from Awakening of Intelligence

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“We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.”

from What are You Doing with Your Life

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“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”

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“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system”

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“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”

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“Perhaps the greatest gift one can give to another human being is not any thing, not ideas, not knowledge, but one's full attention.”

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“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'.”

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“To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”

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“Political leaders are never leaders. For leaders we have to look to the Awakeners! Lao Tse, Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, Milarepa, Gurdjiev, Krishnamurti.”

— Henry Miller 1891 – 1980 CE
from My Bike & Other Friends (1977)

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