Thought is your Enemy

The uniqueness of the individual cannot express itself because of the stranglehold of the experiences of others. _____ To be an individual and to be yourself you do not have to do a thing. Culture demands that you should be something other than what you are. What a tremendous amount of energy we waste trying to become that! But if that energy is released, living becomes very simple. Then what is it that you cannot do? _____ Trying to keep the sensation of happiness, or any other sensation that is pleasurable, going longer than its natural duration, is destroying the sensitivity of the living organism. _____ The mind is interested only in sensuality. In fact, it is born out of sensuality. It maintains its continuity in the field of sensuality. But the body is not interested in any of these except to respond to stimuli. _____ There are actually no problems; rather, what we are saddled with are only solutions. _____ The only ‘I’ that I can find there is the first person singular pronoun. ...

Whatever has happened to me has happened despite everything I did. It was like a jolt of lightning or an earthquake, as it were. Everything that every man thought, felt, and experienced before was flushed out of my system. This has become possible for me not through any effort or volition of mine. That is why I say it is acausal, and I have no way of knowing what I am left with. _____ I maintain that memory is not located in any particular area of the body. Every cell in our body is involved. _____ We have put the memory and the brain to such use for which it is not intended. This is one of the reasons why we for be the Alzheimer's disease is on the increase. _____ We are no different or we are not created for any grander purpose other than the mosquito that is sucking your blood. _____ If there is anything like super-consciousness or higher consciousness that people speak of, you are as much an expression of that as any of the claimants to that cosmic power. Every dog, every cat, ...

When everything fails, you use the last card, the trump in the pack of cards, and call it love. _____ The institution of marriage is not going to disappear as long as we demand relationships. It will continue in some way or other. _____ Unmarried couples are more miserable than married couples. _____ The feminist movement will not succeed as long as the woman depends upon the man for her sexual needs. _____ It is just not possible to establish any relationship with anyone around you, including your near and dear ones, except on the level of “What do I get out of that relationship?” The whole thing springs from the separation and isolation that human beings live in today. _____ Sexuality, if it is left to itself, as in the case of other species, is a simple biological need. To survive and reproduce oneself is the object of the living organism. Anything that is superimposed on that is totally unrelated to the living organism. But we have turned sexuality which is biological in its nature...