Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIMost people like to live in illusions.
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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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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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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All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
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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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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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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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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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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