Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIMeditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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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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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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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 ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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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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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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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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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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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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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What you believe you experience.
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