Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThere 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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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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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Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
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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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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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 word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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