Jean Klein Quotes and Sayings

1. Give to your fellow what he needs to accomplish what life asked of him. Do not impose on another your idea of how he should best live.
    
2. When you really love someone, there's no longer an "I" or an "other." Love is empty of all such attributes.
    
3. Do not nourish the ideas you have built around yourself nor the image people have of you. Be neither someone nor something, just don't play the game. This will bring about being, constant awareness.
    
4. You are primal awareness. Life is only primal awarenss. Between two thoughts or two perceptions you are. You know moments in your life when a thought completely disappears into silence, but still you are.
    
5. Be knowingly silent as often as you can and you will no longer be a prey to the desire to be this or that. You will discover in the everyday events of life that the meaning behind the fulfillment of the whole, for the ego is totally absent.
    
6. What surfaces during meditation are residues of the past. These residues are energy localized through association of ideas--energy mobilized into fear and insecurity. Remain a witness to all this. In being the choiceless observer, attention is motiveless, and all conditioning subsides.
    
7. Striving to improve or to progress only confuses us even more. Our appearances may lead us into believing that we have reached a state of stability, that changes are taking place, that we are progressing and are on the threshold of grace. But in fact nothing has changed. We have merely rearranged our furniture. We all this activity takes place in the mind, it is a segment of imagination.
    
8. You must realize that you are now only a heap of conventions, habits, what society has made of you. Once all these have left you, you realize that they were defenses and aggressions accumulated solely to maintain the ego would simply does not exist.
    
9. It is only through silent awareness that our physical and mental nature can change. This changes completely spontaneous. Make an effort to change we do no more than shift our attention from one level, for one thing, to another. Remain in the vicious circle. This only transfers energy from one point to another. It still leaves us oscillating between suffering a pleasure, each leading inevitably inevitably back to the other. Only living stillness, stillness without someone trying to be still, is capable of undoing the conditioning our biological, emotional and psychological nature has undergone. There is no controller, the selector, no personality making choices. Choices living the situation is given the freedom to unfold.