Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage.It’s only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living; To live is to find out for yourself what is true.
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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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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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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 function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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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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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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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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Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.
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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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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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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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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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What you believe you experience.
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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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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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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