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’.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIDo not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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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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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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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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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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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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