Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
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.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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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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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What you believe you experience.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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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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Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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