Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWe all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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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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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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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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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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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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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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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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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One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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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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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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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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