Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIMost people like to live in illusions.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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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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One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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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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Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees ‘what is’ and learns from ‘what was’.
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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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 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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