Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIMost people like to live in illusions.
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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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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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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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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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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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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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What you believe you experience.
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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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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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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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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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