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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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 fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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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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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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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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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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