When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIMerely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
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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 crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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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’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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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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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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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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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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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 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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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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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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