Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIReligion, 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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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What you believe you experience.
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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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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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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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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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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