People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.
The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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