Facscists

MAIN POINT :
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms. 


Side Points

-Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

-I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. 

-Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay

-The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear

-A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

-Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

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

-In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

-All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man. 

-A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. 

-There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. 

-The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain

-The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. 

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