Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees ‘what is’ and learns from ‘what was’.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIn 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.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
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One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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Look what is happening in the world – we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.
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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
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Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.
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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
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What you believe you experience.
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To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
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The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage.It’s only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.
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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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