To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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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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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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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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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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What you believe you experience.
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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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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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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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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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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