Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIf 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.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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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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Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
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The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
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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 function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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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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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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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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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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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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