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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTII 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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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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 function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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Fear is nonacceptance of 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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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
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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 come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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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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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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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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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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