One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIDespair exists only when there is hope.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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What you believe you experience.
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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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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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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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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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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.
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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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Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
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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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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
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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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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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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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Be a light unto oneself,
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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