Most people like to live in illusions.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWithout knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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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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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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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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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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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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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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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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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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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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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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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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