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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
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Be Yourself Book Philosophy Thinking
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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Art Thinking Word
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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Change Freedom Heart Philosophy World
You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
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Love Moments Philosophy Yourself
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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Control Discipline Learning Mindset
Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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Growth Happiness Life Philosophy Satisfaction
Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.
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Desire Love Mean Secure Vulnerable
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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Ourselves Promise Reality
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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Attachment Freedom Goodness Spiritual
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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Existence Life Parents Philosophy Reality Teacher
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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Children Education Teaching
What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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Transformation World
Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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Awakening Philosophy Pursue Spiritual Understand
Despair exists only when there is hope.
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Existence Hope
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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Deep Fear Thinking
Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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Effort Expectation Freedom Mind Philosophy Possible See True Wisdom

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