The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIDespair exists only when there is hope.
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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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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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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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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
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Look what is happening in the world – we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.
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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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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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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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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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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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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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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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