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Most people like to live in illusions.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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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Existence Life Parents Philosophy Reality Teacher
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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Beginning Desire Discovery Mindset Seek
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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Divine Live World
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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Achievement End Knowledge River
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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Change Freedom Heart Philosophy World
There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
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Art Thinking Word
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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Deception Desire Fundamental
What you believe you experience.
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Believe Experience
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.
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Direction Force Politics Religion Suffering
The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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Awareness Deep Moments Myself Philosophy
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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Afraid End Oneself Spiritual
Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
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Addiction Freedom Knowledge Understand Wisdom
Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
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Mirror Relationship Yourself
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
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Book Deep Philosophy Yourself
Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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Guide Intuition Life One Liner
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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Death Destroy Learning Life School Spiritual Yourself

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