The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIn 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 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 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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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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 primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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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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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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I 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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Be a light unto oneself,
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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What you believe you experience.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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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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Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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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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If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.
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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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