Dying is the dying to the things that you know, not only to the unpleasant things known, but to the pleasant also. You would like to put aside or die to the memories of pain, to the insults, but you would like to keep the memories which are pleasant, which give you satisfaction. But to put an end, to die to the pleasure as well as to the pain, you can do if you give your attention completely to every thought, to every feeling – attention, not contradiction, not saying, ‘I don't like it,’ or ‘I like it,’ just giving attention.

From Collected Works, Vol. 16

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The past is the background of conditioned thought-action, which is dominating and controlling the present and thereby creating a predetermined future. An act born of fear creates certain memories or self-protective resistances which determine future action. Thus, the past controlling the present is overshadowing the future. So a chain is formed which holds thought in bondage. The choiceless awareness of this process is the beginning of true freedom.

From Collected Works, Vol. 3

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We always live in the past or in the future. Especially as you get older, the past becomes extraordinarily significant, and the future is only what you call death. So you go to the past and avoid the future – how happy you were, what a lovely youth you had, or what a miserable existence you had. So we live between the past and the future. If you are still young, you still have the future to make something of, and you shape it according to the past. So you are caught between the past and the future. Observe your own minds, your own life; do not merely hear what I am saying, but actually observe your own existence. You will see how divided it is between the past and the future, and if it is not divided, you are merely living in the immediate, from day to day, making the best of that. Because there may be a war, an economic revolution, a social upheaval – anything may happen tomorrow; tomorrow is uncertain.

From Collected Works, Vol. 13

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We carry on like machines with our tiresome daily routine. How eagerly the mind accepts a pattern of existence, and how tenaciously it clings to it! As by a driven nail, the mind is held together by idea, and around the idea it lives and has its being. The mind is never free, pliable, for it is always anchored; it moves within the radius, narrow or wide, of its own centre. From its centre it dare not wander, and when it does, it is lost in fear. Fear is not of the unknown, but of the loss of the known. The unknown does not incite fear, but dependence on the known does. Fear is always with desire, the desire for the more or for the less. The mind, with its incessant weaving of patterns, is the maker of time; and with time there is fear, hope and death.

From Commentaries on Living Series 2

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Take one of your fears and go into it very deliberately, watching it. See if you can watch it, objectify it and remain with it, not escape from it. Look at it, go into it step by step, and find the root. Then take another fear. Are the roots different, or is there only one root with different branches, like a tree? If I can understand that one root completely, it is finished, whether the fear of death, of loneliness, of losing my job, fear of my not being able to give a talk tomorrow, the fear of falling ill. Are they the various movements of this central fear? For me, there is only one fear, the root of it, like an expanding tree. If the mind can go into it deeply, into the very complex root system, then examining particular fears has no value. Now, can the mind look not at the various expressions of the root but the whole root system? It can observe the root system completely only when the mind is not concerned with solving a particular fear.

From Facing a World in Crisis

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To observe the thing called violence without division, without the observer, to see the conditioning, the structure of belief, the opinions, the prejudices, is to see what you are; that is ‘what is’. When you observe it and there is a division, then you say, ‘It is impossible to change.’ Man has lived like this for millennia, and you go on living in this way. Saying, ‘It is not possible,’ deprives one of energy. Only when you see what is possible in the highest form, then you have plenty of energy. So one has to observe actually ‘what is’, not the image you have about ‘what is’, but what you actually are, never saying it is ugly or beautiful.

From Beyond Violence

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