From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIDiscipline 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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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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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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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.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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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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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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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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