Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThose who play a safe game die very safely.
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All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
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To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
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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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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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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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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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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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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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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
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It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living; To live is to find out for yourself what is true.
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