Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIAll 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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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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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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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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There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
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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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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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Be a light unto oneself,
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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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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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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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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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