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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITo 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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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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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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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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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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 primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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