Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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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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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.
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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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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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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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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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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.
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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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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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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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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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