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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWhat you believe you experience.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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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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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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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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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
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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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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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.
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