If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIRelationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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What you believe you experience.
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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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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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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’.
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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.
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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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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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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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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