Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITo 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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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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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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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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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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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