There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all
Interpretation
Sensitivity is an all-encompassing state of awareness; one cannot be partially sensitive.
This quote emphasizes that true sensitivity is not something one can experience in parts. It requires a complete immersion of the whole being, indicating that genuine awareness and responsiveness come from a total engagement of consciousness rather than a selective perception of the world around us.
In practice
During a mindfulness workshop discussing the importance of full awareness in meditation.
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
You either have commercial pressure or ideological pressure. I prefer commercial pressure; otherwise, you can be at the mercy of one or two idiots.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have doneβa judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
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