Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIFrom innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
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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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Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
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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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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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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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 begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.
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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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