If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITo meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.
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The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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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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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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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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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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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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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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