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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIContentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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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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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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