It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThose who play a safe game die very safely.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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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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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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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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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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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