You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIPut away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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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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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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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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No 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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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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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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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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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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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