I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTINo 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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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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What you believe you experience.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday 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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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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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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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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