Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
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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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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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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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The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
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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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It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living; To live is to find out for yourself what is true.
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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
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