You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

Most people like to live in illusions.

Analysis does not transform consciousness.

I do not know if you have ever noticed that the more you struggle to understand, the less you understand any problem. But, the moment you cease to struggle and let the problem tell you the whole story, give all its significance - then there is understanding, which means, obviously, that to understand, the mind must be quiet.

Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?

Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?