Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
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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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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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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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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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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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What you believe you experience.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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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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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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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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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Look what is happening in the world – we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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