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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThose who play a safe game die very safely.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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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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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
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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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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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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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