Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITo meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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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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The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.
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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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