When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIt’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
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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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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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What you believe you experience.
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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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Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.
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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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Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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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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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
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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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