When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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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When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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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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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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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 very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage.It’s only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
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