Most people like to live in illusions.
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.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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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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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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
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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 moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.
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