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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThose who play a safe game die very safely.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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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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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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage.It’s only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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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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Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.
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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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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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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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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