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.
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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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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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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Be a light unto oneself,
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The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
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One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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