To Know All, It Is Necessary To

The First Thing, The Very Very First Thing, "find Out What Your Greatest Characteristic Is, Your Greatest Undoing, Your Central Characteristic Of Unconsciousness." Each One's Is Different. Somebody Is Sex-obsessed. In A Country Like India, Where For Centuries Sex Has Been Repressed, That Has Become Almost A Universal Characteristic; Everybody Is Obsessed With Sex. Somebody Is Obsessed With Anger, And Somebody Else Is Obsessed With Greed. You Have To Watch Which Is Your Basic Obsession.

The Only Type Of Sexual Relations Possible Are Those With Someone Who Is As Advanced And Capable As Oneself.

Nothing Can Be Attained Without Suffering But At The Same Time One Must Begin By Sacrificing Suffering.

If A Man Could Understand All The Horror Of The Lives Of Ordinary People Who Are Turning Around In A Circle Of Insignificant Interests And Insignificant Aims, If He Could Understand What They Are Losing, He Would Understand That There Can Only Be One Thing That Is Serious For Him - To Escape From The General Law, To Be Free. What Can Be Serious For A Man In Prison Who Is Condemned To Death? Only One Thing: How To Save Himself, How To Escape: Nothing Else Is Serious.

A Man Must First Of All Understand Certain Things. He Has Thousands Of False Ideas And False Conceptions, Chiefly About Himself, And He Must Get Rid Of Some Of Them Before Beginning To Acquire Anything New. Otherwise The New Will Be Built On A Wrong Foundation And The Result Will Be Worse Than Before. To Speak The Truth Is The Most Difficult Thing In The World; One Must Study A Great Deal And For A Long Time In Order To Speak The Truth. The Wish Alone Is Not Enough. To Speak The Truth One Must Know What The Truth Is And What A Lie Is, And First Of All In Oneself. And This Nobody Wants To Know.